As-Suwayda - SANA
The people of As-Suwayda governorate flock to their various activities to collect and receive aid in support of those affected by the earthquake, to provide as much aid as possible to be packed and sent successively to the stricken governorates.
A member of the specialized executive office for the social affairs and relief sector in the As-Suwayda Governorate Council, Raghadi Al-Ghouthani, pointed out in a statement to SANA reporter that the governorate is witnessing a state of rush, great cooperation, and initiatives from all the people in their various charitable, civil, religious, official, partisan, trade union activities, and chambers of industry, commerce, agriculture, tourism, and others, to stand with the family. In the governorates affected by the earthquake, by coming to the headquarters of the relief committee in the provincial council or to the sub-committees in the villages and towns concerned with collecting aid, or through what is collected and provided through individual or collective initiatives.
Al-Ghouthani indicated that work is continuing in collecting, packing and preparing aid, to be shipped to the affected governorates in the provincial council hall daily from eight in the morning until late in the evening, as a convoy is currently being prepared to Hama governorate, which will be sent tomorrow, after sending two convoys to each of Aleppo and Lattakia. Over the past two days, in coordination and communication with the Relief Sub-Committee with relief committee officials in the aforementioned governorates, to determine the required needs and focus on them.
In the same context, Al-Ghouthani indicated that a number of families from Aleppo governorate, numbering 54 people, arrived during the past two days, and housing, foodstuffs and relief materials were provided for them in coordination and cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent branch and civil associations and initiatives, and their conditions are monitored and all care and attention is provided to them.
In her turn, the head of the Voluntary Work and Social Activity Office at the National Union of Syrian Students branch, Marah Azzam, stated that the volunteer team at the Union branch, which includes about 450 young men and women from various colleges and institutes, participates in cooperation with members of the Yamama Youth Literary Forum in sorting and packing the collected aid and preparing it for shipment to affected governorates, in order to facilitate work and based on their national and humanitarian duty.
Ghassan Khew
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