Distribution of Heating Supplies to Relieve the Syrian Refugees
Siege and war has deeply affected all aspects of livelihood in Syria: education, health, economy, agriculture, industry, and income earning. Thousands of households have been deprived of all means to income generation.
Forced to flee to camps in search of safety, the Syrian IDPs face dire living conditions in camps that lack all necessities. Shortage in resources exacerbates in winter, when torrential rains take away tents and all survival items painstakingly attained from assistance caravans. Hardship extends to markets where increased prices of winter essentials, e.g., heaters and fuel, challenge breadwinners’ ability to provide warmth during cold temps.
Distribution of heating supplies:
As means to provide warmth to our Syrian brothers, ‘Beyaz Eller Organization’ used support from Kind Hearts Association/Palestine 48 to distribute heating essentials to camps in northern Aleppo suburbs.
The project was based on procuring and distributing 500 heaters and 50,000 liters of mazut for distribution to camp dwellers who bear the scourge of displacement and dire living conditions.
Each of the targeted households has received heating essentials, one heater and 100 liters of mazut, totaling to 500 benefiting households (around 2,500 individuals).
Camps Relieve Project brings warmth:
While conducting field tours in targeted camps to raise a needs assessment before we start project implementation, we met a young man in forties who spoke about their dire living conditions. He said:
“ I was feeling cold and could not afford to buy fuel or even winter clothing to my children. I strive to find an income source to sustain my family but whatever I gain is insufficient to make ends meet’.
A woman in her seventies said: “We thank Allah for whatever happened and ask his to ease our livelihoods. Nothing is harder for a parent than to see their children in bitter need for essentials and failing to afford any. I see my grandchildren shivering with cold and find nothing but these tired rags to cover them at night. It is not the cold that hurt me as much as the sounds of their shivering with cold every night.”
