Beirut
In the apartment of Aïn el-Remmané, a popular suburb of Beirut, Zeina walks in circles. Lebanese of Ethiopian origin, she closed her restaurant with the crisis.
“My mother has always taken responsibility for everything; she always tried to get out of it. She's my role model, ”
says Gabriella, her 15-year-old daughter, whom she is raising alone. But today, this fighter can only find households, which do not bring in enough income. Her rent has not been paid for several months, as has the payment for the last term of her daughter's school.
"We do not die of hunger, but meat is no longer often on the menu," she
concedes. Worse, her roommate chose to return to Addis Ababa. A single mother too, she abandoned her 1 year old son to Zeina's good care.
“Otherwise, she was not doing well in Ethiopia,”
explains the mother.
For her, however, it means one more mouth to feed and a new source of anguish.
"Even when you have the means, infant milk
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