COMMENT As Syrian refugees still try to cross the jealously-guarded Lebanese border daily, I couldn’t help but feel home will never be the same again for 1.2 million Syrians already in the Beqaa Valley camps, a few miles inside Lebanon.

Blinded, bomb-deafened, maimed, injured or simply displaced by a war they never asked for, more than half the refugees are innocent children who may never know what a normal childhood means.

Worse still, if you are a Syrian child in a refugee camp here, life is anything but normal. Especially when you cannot go to a regular school, mingle with children your own age and dream of a future.