Emergency Aid Syria

In the context of emergency aid measures, help alliance always relies on a two-stage approach.
First, help alliance starts with immediate emergency aid measures to provide the people affected with the most basic necessities, such as water and food, hygiene articles, tents and emergency shelters, or clothing.

At the same time, help alliance is looking for strong, trustworthy partner organizations on the ground with which long-term reconstruction projects can be realized, with the aim of providing high-quality education for all or creating job prospects.

We are convinced that this is the only way to help the local people in the long term.

Since 2019, help alliance has been working with its partner organization Zeltschule e.V. in Lebanon. This partner organization has also been active in Syria for many years. It runs schools for syrian refugees at eleven locations in the north of Syria and provides 2,500 people with basic necessities. This region is cut off from the rest of Syria. Of the three million people in this region, half are children. The same is true of the eleven camps in Idlib that are being cared for. There, too, live many children who have hardly known anything else in their lives but one catastrophe after another: Revolution – war – bombings – displacement – hunger.

Due to the earthquake on February 6, 2023, the families in the camps lost what little they had left after fleeing other parts of the country. Their tents, mattresses, blankets and small stoves were destroyed in the earthquake, their tents collapsed over their heads. Blankets and mattresses lay unprotected in the snow for hours and soaked up dirty water.
Water tanks collapsed and became porous.

Nine schools were severely damaged.

As a first step, urgently needed relief supplies such as heating materials, building materials, food and water tanks are being delivered. As water tanks in the refugee camps were destroyed, there was an acute shortage of clean drinking water. As a result, there have already been the first cases of cholera. It is therefore enormously important at the moment that the hygienic conditions in the camps are improved again so that epidemics cannot spread further.

In the second step, the nine schools are to be rebuilt, thus giving the children access to education.
By quickly resuming school lessons, traumatized children will at least partially regain a stable, familiar environment. In class, they experience community, their thoughts focus on a positive future and they draw strength from the fact that they are cared for.
The school children will again receive their daily school lessons, which correspond to the Syrian curriculum. The gaps caused by the cancellation of classes in the last weeks should be closed as soon as possible, so that they pass all exams at the end of the school year and receive their annual or final certificate.