“We are unable to make a living in normal time, how should we get through this epidemic?” Halil, Syrian Veteran - Multeci Medyasi
Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the conditions of refugees who are already trying to survive in difficult conditions have worsened. Halil, a 20-year-old Syrian refugee, who works at Işıkkent Shoemakers Site in Bornova district of Izmir, is one of the refugees affected by this difficult period. Halil, 20, has been working on the site for many years. Before coming to Turkey were they doing in this profession in Aleppo. Her father and brother also work in different workshops on the same site.
95 percent of workshops are closed
two or three days after the first cases in Turkey Halil said start closing of the workshop, “We do not work for 3 weeks, the season is fully opened, our jobs, but 95 percent of the workshop presented on the site is off,” he says. Saying that there are 5 people at home, his father and brother are not working, and that all of his friends on the site are at home, Halil says that he has never been away from home for 3 weeks and often spends time on social media by phone. Hundreds of children and young workers are working without insurance and without registration on the shoemakers site. Halil and his family are also part of this large group. Since nobody is insured at home, they cannot benefit from any allowances and they are trying to manage with the money they currently have. “The state does not help anyone,” said Halil,"The rich get along somehow, but even those who work with minimum wages cannot make a living in normal time, how should we get through this period?" she asks.
’ The Environment We Worked Was Always Unhealthy’
Saying that they were working in the first days of the epidemic, Halil said, “There was no precaution nor anything else. Anyway, we normally work very dirty and every material is dangerous, full of drugs. “If we were working, we would definitely get sick.” Despite this risk, Halil said that if he had not been banned and would have to work in the workshops, Halil says, “We will have to make bread for bread, no one gives us bread when we stop at home,” and says the government’s package does not help anyone. “If the state brings us a ban, then it should also help. I think it should give at least 1000 lira to those like us, but even that is insufficient. We pay 600 pounds rent, what is the remaining 400 pounds enough? ” "They say eat healthy, but we have no such power. We can shop at least once or twice. Everything is too expensive,Wrapping cigarettes, our only luxury, is now very expensive. “It is even more difficult to make a living for families with 2-3 children.” Saying that one of his brothers is a student at the university, Halil says that he still has to pay rent.
indicating whether any predictions about the progress of the epidemic process in Turkey Khalil, said that if the bill were sorry when it comes to the internet disconnected. Stating that he has to work even if it is an epidemic at the moment, Halil said, “I wish that if we were working, it was already unhealthy before the epidemic. If they asked, “We got a job, but there is a virus, will you come around?” But now he is forbidden, of course, because I have not completed my 20 years of age and I cannot work with him because I am not registered, ”he said that they agreed to work under all conditions to make a living.
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