The difficult fate of a single mother from Syria: "I didn't sleep a single night"

In Idomeni, in the camp near the Greek border with Macedonia, among the refugees who are waiting for the border crossing to open for them, there are thousands of children and women whose husbands, fathers or brothers have been killed, are missing or have managed to move to another country.

Among them is the refugee from Syria Nisrine Šiko with her five children, whose husband was killed by a bomb in Aleppo three years ago, according to UNHCR.

"It's impossible for me to live here with my children. I can't stand it. I've been here for 10 days. I haven't slept a single night. They sleep, but I don't," she says.

Nisrine complains that it is difficult for her with five children in the conditions she is in.

"Yesterday, when it was raining, my children were completely wet and the blankets were soaked. I dried the children and put them to bed. After that, I couldn't sleep," says this refugee from Syria.

2,4 million children have fled the war in Syria, many of whom have been killed or recruited to fight, while many women like Nisrina have been widowed by the war.

"It's hard. I was a housewife and my husband was my everything. And now I'm a mother and a father at the same time," explains the unhappy woman.

According to the latest UNICEF report, every third child from Syria knows nothing but war.

Today marks five years since the Syrian conflict broke out, and negotiations between the Syrian opposition and the UN-brokered government continued in Geneva yesterday in an attempt to end the civil war that has claimed more than 250.000 lives.