‘We can change this reality’: the women sharing news of war in Ghouta
As bombs fall on the besieged area of Syria, women’s voices are at the forefront
When the bombs start falling, two dozen adults and children gather in one room in Bayan Wehan’s home in besieged eastern Ghouta, Syria. They hold hands, hug each other and try to find hope.
“I put my brother’s daughter in my lap, she is five-years-old, and I try to make her forget the shelling noises. I tell her stories about beautiful things,” says Wehan, who has endured half a decade under siege.
“When the bombardment stops,
