Waafa Mearwy lives with her son Bashar in a small apartment in 6th of October City on the outskirts of Cairo. The city is called Little Syria, because thousands of Syrians fled to this place since anti-government activists began their struggle to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2011.
Waafa came to Egypt a few months ago, when two of her son’s friends got killed by snipers near their home in the southern Damascus district of Nahar Aisha. Her two daughters and their husbands still live in Syria.
