DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) is continuing its Warm Winter programme inside Syria, with 136,340 people receiving help over the past few weeks.
QRC’s staff in Syria expanded the scope of winter relief to cover Aleppo and the countryside of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama and Idlib. They distributed 34,000 blankets, 10,000 tarpaulins and 83,000 pieces of winter clothing to 78,840 people.
Aleppo was the first destination, where 4,100 families received 8,200 blankets and 2,500 pieces of winter clothing. Then the relief campaign moved to the countryside of Aleppo to provide 2,765 families with 2,000 tarpaulins, 7,000 blankets and 1,300 pieces of winter clothing.
In the countryside of Idlib, 2,000 tarpaulins, 6,000 blankets, and 1,000 pieces of winter clothing were distributed to 1,950 families. In the countryside of Hama, 1,000 families received 1,000 tarpaulins, 1,800 blankets, and 500 pieces of winter clothing.
After that, the relief winter campaign moved to the countryside of Latakia, where 2,965 families were supplied with 2,000 tarpaulins, 6,000 blankets, and 1,000 pieces of winter clothing. Finally, 3,000 families in the Bab Al Salama refugee camps were provided with 3,000 tarpaulins, 5,000 blankets, and 2,000 pieces of winter clothing.
In parallel, QRC continued to distribute urgent assistance in beleaguered Eastern Ghouta, the countryside of Damascus, where scarcity of food and medical and relief supplies, and severe snowstorms over the past couple of months have added to the locals’ misery.
So far, QRC teams have distributed 416 tons of relief assistance to 57,500 people in several parts of the region, at a cost of QR2,938,420. Each family received four blankets, 60kg of wood for heating and a package of basic food items, such as rice, flour, bulgur, ghee, vegetable oil, and jam.
QRC’s assistance was targeted to the most needy regions under siege, which resulted in a hike in the prices of daily supplies, if any.
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