Mohamed Brahim runs his fingers through his hair dotted with white hair. “I am only 40 years old and have a lot of gray hair,” he laments, sitting in a room at the Bachir Saleh National Hospital in Rabuni, located in the administrative center of the , in Algeria. He earns the equivalent of 150 euros every three months as an incentive for his work as a nurse and deputy director of the hospital. The money “doesn’t work for me,” he says in a tired voice. To support his family, he also runs a small store and takes on extra jobs when they appear. “How am I going to feed her? With the two kilos of rice from the humanitarian aid they give me each month?” he asks. “You will always see workers in the camps stressed, weakened and struggling. We have to find a way to get money into the home,” he continues. “Today there are families that don’t even have enough money to buy a piece of chicken a week,” he adds.
