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By Aliaa Awada, Media Advocacy and Communications Manager, Save the Children Lebanon

By: Ahmed Bayram & Aliaa Awada

Ascending rugged hills uncovers the fertile mountains that embrace this village. Shebaa, on the southeastern edge of Lebanon, is a typically calm place that has gone quieter this morning. It has taken us three hours to get here which, by Lebanon’s standards, is a marathon journey.

The damaged schools that children in Syria once learned in and the abandoned parks where young friends spent joyful times have been visited by viewers in Lebanon over a 100 kilometres away, with a pair of Virtual Reality glasses.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians risk being pushed to return in 2018 despite ongoing violence, warn aid agencies

For every Syrian who returned home last year, three more were newly displaced

The vast tract of arable land remains largely unoccupied.

Except for the wild birds that attract over-enthusiastic hunters over the course of the season, there is nothing to suggest that this remote spot in North Lebanon is full of life.