Sara — not her real name — is a 16-year-old Syrian girl who fled to Lebanon with her parents and brothers soon after fighting reached her hometown in 2011. While displaced, Sara’s father died, plunging the family into poverty and forcing her and her brothers to drop out of school. Life was hard. However, the situation in Syria changed dramatically in December 2024, when the country underwent its political transition and a fragile peace returned to Sara’s hometown.