children like we on have to work to provide for their families together with her friend fatma she works an eight hour shift like the others here sometimes even longer. more than half the farm laborers our children who should be going to school but have been drafted to work as wage slaves. the farmer who owns the potato field hires the young field workers via the camp supervisor or shall we should he ensures that the harvest is carried out without a hitch and that his workers get what they need to subsist on. with. my parents get four packages of bread every day for all of us there is a deduction for electricity. and for the space where my family has our tent up to follow some simple. we've come to lebanon to find out how this system of child labor functions the young generation will be needed to help rebuild syria what will it mean for them and the country if half of these children grow up unable to read or write. we don't get any money i do this for my family when i work my wages are credited to me once a month they settle the accounts if i need something for myself i have to ask my pa