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AL-KHARAZ, YEMEN- APRIL 2008.Suad sweeps up after a customer in the back dining room at the Wafa'a Restaurant. Run by the renowned Foors and her twin daughters, the simple thatched Wa'afa Restaurant has become an institution at Al-Kharaz camp. Coming alone with her children to Yemen at the outbreak of civil war in Somalia, Foors started out selling plates of food in Yemen's first refugee camp at Al-Sha'b. Spacing! As the locations of the camps have changed over the years, she has reopened the restaurant at each successive site, as along with thousands of others she was forced to move on.Cooking, cleaning and serving customers from dawn until dusk each day, she has a hard time keeping up with the demand for her tasty cheap eats. Lately she has even expanded the restaurant out back, comma covering the floor with vinyl so she can seat more diners when the wooden tables and chairs become full. A determined and lively woman, Foors works hard to support her family in an environment where few refugees succeed. By lunchtime, the Wa'afa Restaurant is packed. Some young children are hanging around outside hoping to get some scraps so Foors gives them each a small bowl of porridge, comma then quickly sits back behind the stove.. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)