Damascus-SANA
With different titles, a number of NGOs launched initiatives to support needy families and reduce the burdens of the winter season in terms of securing heating and winter clothing for all ages, in addition to food. Volunteer teams distributed in-kind and material aid in a number of areas in Damascus and its countryside.
“Wool and a pair of paws” is the campaign slogan of the Preservation of Grace Association, which includes the distribution of winter clothes in a number of Damascus neighborhoods and its suburbs, which were purchased from female breadwinners who work as sewing and weaving, according to the association’s public relations director, Mamoun Koueider.
In a statement to SANA representative, Koueider pointed out that the campaign, which will be launched tomorrow, targets 5,000 children from the families of the martyrs, orphans, and those without breadwinners, pointing out that the campaign has another aspect that also aims to support female breadwinners by purchasing their products and securing material income for their families.
More than 210 families have been reached by the volunteer teams of the Youth Charitable Society through the “Some Dafa” initiative, which it launched last month within the neighborhoods of Damascus and is working to expand the beneficiary families to include the Damascus countryside as well, according to the association’s media coordinator, Reham Ashmawi.
Ashmawi indicated that the initiative included distributing winter clothes and covers with the aim of supporting these families in a simple way and enhancing cooperation in the community, noting that the association also continues to provide medical services in various centers and mobile clinics in the governorates.
In a number of areas in the countryside of Damascus, including Al-Kiswa, Sahnaya and Moadamiya, the Al-Mabarrah Women’s Association for Social Development and Orphans Sponsorship has translated social solidarity through the “Hand in the Hands of War and Afa” campaign, which was launched yesterday, according to the association’s director, Rana Al Baba, explaining that the campaign includes distributing winter clothes, some foodstuffs, and cash to buy heating materials. "Mazzot" on more than 250 families.
With the aim of alleviating the effects of the air depression and securing some requirements for needy families, the Al-Qanat Charitable Association in Damascus distributed blankets and winter clothes, as part of the “Daveni” campaign, according to the director of the association, Muhammad Saltaji.
On the integration of efforts between NGOs and the work of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor to support the most vulnerable groups in society and needy families, the Director of Social Affairs and Labor in Damascus Daline Fahd stressed the importance of initiatives to reduce the material burdens on these groups and reach the largest number of them, indicating that the unjust Western economic blockade has made it difficult to secure fuel. And providing them on a permanent basis, in addition to the difficult economic and living conditions as a result of the terrorist war on Syria.
Fahd pointed out that the number of civil societies in Damascus exceeds 600 and provides a number of facilities to implement the initiatives and projects of these societies in various regions and neighborhoods, noting that the activities and projects of civil work during the terrorist war on Syria varied between relief and development in its various forms and achieved positive fruits with the support of various groups of orphans and women breadwinners, children, needy families, persons with disabilities and others, in addition to its role in investing the efforts of young people in voluntary work.
Muhannad Suleiman
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