Lebanon

Lebanon: Throughout the day, young boys and girls walk along dirt roads, carrying baskets of fruits and vegetables from the fields to shops. Some are barefoot, while others struggle with the heavy load, according to Times Colonist. More than two million Syrians have fled their country's civil war, now in its third year, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq. At least half of the refugees 1.1 million are children. Of those, some 75 per cent are under the age of 12, according to the United Nations refugee agency and ZAHLEH, Lebanon - Every morning in northeastern Lebanon, hundreds of Syrian children are picked up from refugee settlements, loaded onto trucks and taken to the fields or shops for a day's work that earns $4 or less. The children, some as young as 7, are cheap labour in Lebanon and Jordan, where they've fled the Syrian civil war. And they are fast becoming primary providers for their families as the adults can't find jobs in exile. They work long hours of manual labour in fields, farms and shops for little pay, according to a U.N. report issued Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.