There are over 600,000 Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon, with thousands based in the sparse Bekaa district [Photo: Sam Tarling/Executive]
Conditions in the region are deteriorating, with the United Nations struggling to provide support [Photo: Sam Tarling/Executive]
There is not enough work for the refugees, with many poor Lebanese being angered by Syrians accepting lower wages [Photo: Sam Tarling/Executive]
A refugee fixes a waterproof layer to the outside of his tent [Photo: Sam Tarling/Executive]
Refugees from Homs prepare the ground to pitch another makeshift tent in the Bekaa [Photo: Sam Tarling/Executive]
Many children have fled the war-torn country without their families [Photo: Sam Tarling/Executive]
Lebanon has so far decided against formal refugee camps but as the country struggles to cope there are increasing pressures to do so [Photo: Sam Tarling/Executive]
