Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (CNN) -- He escaped the war, but life's no happier now for Omar. The 8-year-old Syrian refugee longs for friends back in Qusayr, hard hit by a civil war that grinds on. He also misses days in school -- when the most he had to worry about was finishing his homework. 

"I work so I can bring money for my family," says Omar. His mother, like other refugees, asked that their last names not be used as they are worried for their safety. 

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I met Omar on a hot, dusty day in Lebanon's wind-swept Bekaa Valley. We were interviewing his mother when Omar and his 14-year-old brother came zooming by on a motorbike. They had just finished gathering eggs at a nearby farm -- what little money the kids make is the only way their family is able to survive. 

The job is hard, but Omar went through an even more difficult experience recently. 

"They hit us," he says timidly, describing how Lebanese boys his age beat him up. 

"They said to me," he adds, embarrassed and close to tears, " 'Damn every Syrian.' " 

Omar now faces a different kind of brutality -- a harsh reality reflected in the weary faces of kids all around. Their eyes make them seem far older. There's no childhood spark, with smiles few and far between. 

I ask a 15-year-old girl what life's been like for her here. 

"Life?" She asks unbelievingly -- as if the question were a farce. 
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