Provision of Formula Milk to the Displaced Households from Dar’a and its Suburbs
Provision of Formula Milk, As war horrors, siege, and shelling continues in different parts of Syria, enormous difficulties have emerged to afford basic food supplies, including formula milk for newly born children whose mothers’ breast milk have stopped as a result of malnutrition, horrific shelling, and depletion of alternative nutritional sources.
Difficulties occur regarding the provision of formula milk in besieged cities and for mothers in recently deported communities who escaped death in their original or transit accommodation areas. This includes the recently deported people of Dar’a moving towards the Jordanian borders.
Deported Households’ Suffering:
Difficulties occur regarding the provision of formula milk in besieged cities and for mothers in recently deported communities who escaped death in their original or transit accommodation areas. This includes the recently deported people of Dar’a moving towards the Jordanian borders.
Provision of Formula Milk to Deported Households:
Pursuant to “Beyaz Eller” Organization’s goal to save the children’s lives and afford their right to a healthy livelihood, we work on provision of formula milk to the deported households from Dar’a and its suburbs supported by the “International Islamic Charity Organization” (IICO)
The project gives priority to babies aged 1-12 months- 4 packs per month on average. Hence, 9,000 milk packs were distributed to 2,250 babies of families deported from Dar’a to Qunaitera and northern Dar’a suburbs- along the Syrian-Jordanian borderline.
Suffering and Pain:
Our field team sought feedback from the benefiting households who suffer adversity to afford formula milk.
On another side, a father holds up his baby and says: “After losing all my family members, I am left alone with the youngest of my children. I am scared of losing her to hunger and strive to afford milk every day. Despite all my efforts, I can bring her one meal only and quench her thirst with water the rest of the day. ”
On another side, a father holds up his baby and says: “After losing all my family members, I am left alone with the youngest of my children. I am scared of losing her to hunger and strive to afford milk every day. Despite all my efforts, I can bring her one meal only and quench her thirst with water the rest of the day. ”
Project Importance:
Provision of formula milk to feed babies of the deported families of Dar’a and its countryside who fled death in their areas of residence, leaving behind their livelihoods and income sources, contributes to the psychological and financial wellbeing of these households and saves lives of many children who are threatened by death of malnutrition due to absence, or irregular affordance of, formula milk.