A Caritas Turkey social worker updates the prescription of a
Syrian refugee so they have access to medicines. Credit: Caritas
Turkey  By Caritas Turkey  There are tens of thousands Syrian
refugee families living outside the tent camps along the Syria-
Turkey border. This is a number increasing very fast day by day.
About an hour far from Istanbul, some Syrian refugee families
live in poor and crowded housing conditions.  Ali, a 13 year old
young boy, is worried for his father, who developed serious
hypertension and heart problems recently, following the stress
he has to endure every day. He, together with his family and
children, had to flee in a rush from a conflict in Syria, facing
a dangerous, long journey to cross the border into Turkey.  Now,
they do not know for how long they will have to stay in Turkey
without sufficient resources, jobs, education, health services,
and without being allowed to apply for asylum or being given an
official status. They are worried about the rent, the future of
their childr