Lebanese charging Syrian refugees rent, forcing children to work for $2 a day

“To simply live in a makeshift tent on a 10-by-10-foot plot of dirt, some of the landowners in Bekaa Valley are charging $100 a month. It would almost be laughable except as so often happens — the children bear the brunt of this hardship. They work in the fields for $2 a day, beg under bridges and turn to prostitution.”

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