Damascus

Ryad Alsous had to leave his 500 beehives behind when he fled Syria over fears for his safety as civil war descended under the hand of President Assad. Now, relocated in Huddersfield, Ryad has been able to gain a new lease of life with a beehive gifted to him and is now giving to refugees a token of hope by teaching them to have their own beehives, building the colonies of Britain’s black bees.
Seven years, to the day, since the Syrian civil war began, Damascus is barely recognisable
'We fled our home under heavy shelling carrying nothing but the clothes on our backs'.