Community and community initiatives in a number of governorates to contribute to tackling the Corona virus

Provincial-Sana

The voluntary and civil initiatives launched in the governorates to support the governmental measures taken to tackle the new Corona virus varied between awareness campaigns, providing humanitarian assistance and distributing medical materials.

The team of the Syrian Society for Social Development represented by the Pulse Center in the city of Salkhad in As-Suwayda and through 47 employees and volunteers presented several initiatives and measures to spread awareness and protect society and address the Corona virus in the Salkhad region and a number of villages.

The team coordinator, Nada Al-Sabbagh, explained that the team implemented several initiatives, including a safety distance, which is to place spatial separations to ensure a safety distance in public places such as ovens, the Syrian halls for trade and money exchanges, food stores, etc. As well as manufacturing quantities of masks and distributing them to citizens, in addition to sterilizing public places and facilities in cooperation with local councils and partners in many villages, such as Al Hoya, Salt, Al Gharya, and others.

The volunteers, Omar Jabbour, Areej Abu Dahn, Hamad Al-Shoufi, and Amer Halawa, indicated that what the team is doing aims to provide assistance as much as possible to the people, especially in light of the conditions the country is going through and tackling the Corona virus.

In Hama, the Hama Chamber of Industry distributed three thousand food baskets to the people at the initiative of the province's industrialists.

Chamber President Ziyad Arabo said that the initiative targets families whose dependents have stopped working as a result of the current circumstances and the families of martyrs and distributed in all neighborhoods of the city in addition to all areas of the governorate's countryside through distributed offices of the chamber and aims to reduce the material burden on the targeted families.

In the city of Masyaf, the Initiatives Committee of the City Council distributed, in cooperation with civil, social and economic activities, a food basket.

Engineer Sami Basal, head of the City Council, explained that the initiative comes within the framework of efforts to identify the needs of the civil society and help families who have chronic diseases and people with disabilities in addition to the owners of free professions whose work has ceased.

In Al-Hasakah, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent branch, in cooperation with the Sub-Relief Committee, began distributing food baskets in all of the city's districts to relieve the citizens in light of the application of precautionary measures to address the Corona virus.

Aid official in the organization's branch, Ammar Al-Diri, said that the distribution campaign started today in the Meridian neighborhood, and it generally targets all the neighborhoods of the governorate gradually, indicating that the distributed materials include food baskets provided by the World Food Program.

In the context, the Syrian Al-Yamamah Charitable Society launched a campaign today to distribute cleaning materials, sterilizers and masks in the neighborhoods of Al-Hasaka city.

In Homs Governorate, the “Ali Eini” service, which is specialized in distributing all requests for home delivery in the city of Homs, continues to distribute bread material free of charge to citizens that it started from the beginning of the curfew period until now to include all of the city’s neighborhoods.

Omar Kakheya, the owner of the initiative, emphasized that the aim is to protect people and not leave their homes under the current circumstances.