Deteriorating living condition in the camp of Batenta in Idlib
Idlib – North-Press Agency
Fida al-Ahmad
While IDPs in Idlib countryside are living in very difficult humanitarian conditions, the Trust Fund for Reconstruction of Syria has agreed to finance a number of projects in the areas of Syrian opposition control at 8.3 million euros.
IDPs in the de-escalation zones of Idlib and Hama are suffering poor living conditions as a result of the lack of all essentials of drinking water, sanitation and medical care centers.
In Batenta camp, one of the camps located west of Idlib city, which includes more than 150 displaced people from Hama and Idlib countryside, as they take shelter under the shade of trees where they lack the minimum necessities of life.
Um Ahmad complained about the absence of relief organizations and institutions concerned with IDPs affairs, amid the unacceptable living conditions, saying: “our tents don’t protect us from the heat of summer nor the cold of winter, and we lack water and food, ” adding that she dreamt of returning to her home in the southern countryside of Idlib after she abandoned it as a result of shelling her village.
In a related context, the Trust Fund for Reconstruction of Syria (SRTF) (a multi-donor trust fund established by the Friends of the Syrian People Group and its Working Group on Economic Recovery and Development) has agreed to finance a number of projects with 148.4 million euros in the Syrian opposition’s control areas.
This came in the regular meeting No. 22 of the Committee of Trust Fund Management, which was held in the city of Prague last Thursday, with the presence of the National Coalition Representative Hadi al-Bahra and the Representative of the Interim Government Yasser al-Hajji.
The participants discussed the resumption of the projects financed by the Fund in the areas under in the Syrian opposition-held areas, with the approval of new projects, namely the support of the Civil Defense to remove debris and mines from 8 cities and towns in rural Aleppo governorate, and a project to rehabilitate and maintain warehouse and refrigerators of the Local Council in the town of Mare’.
“The approval of projects and their budgets will impact positively on the reality of services provided to the population in many areas of opposition control,” said Hadi al-Bahra, a member of the National Coalition.
“It would secure these areas and improve the services for the return of IDPs”, he added.
Fida al-Ahmad
While IDPs in Idlib countryside are living in very difficult humanitarian conditions, the Trust Fund for Reconstruction of Syria has agreed to finance a number of projects in the areas of Syrian opposition control at 8.3 million euros.
IDPs in the de-escalation zones of Idlib and Hama are suffering poor living conditions as a result of the lack of all essentials of drinking water, sanitation and medical care centers.
In Batenta camp, one of the camps located west of Idlib city, which includes more than 150 displaced people from Hama and Idlib countryside, as they take shelter under the shade of trees where they lack the minimum necessities of life.
Um Ahmad complained about the absence of relief organizations and institutions concerned with IDPs affairs, amid the unacceptable living conditions, saying: “our tents don’t protect us from the heat of summer nor the cold of winter, and we lack water and food, ” adding that she dreamt of returning to her home in the southern countryside of Idlib after she abandoned it as a result of shelling her village.
In a related context, the Trust Fund for Reconstruction of Syria (SRTF) (a multi-donor trust fund established by the Friends of the Syrian People Group and its Working Group on Economic Recovery and Development) has agreed to finance a number of projects with 148.4 million euros in the Syrian opposition’s control areas.
This came in the regular meeting No. 22 of the Committee of Trust Fund Management, which was held in the city of Prague last Thursday, with the presence of the National Coalition Representative Hadi al-Bahra and the Representative of the Interim Government Yasser al-Hajji.
The participants discussed the resumption of the projects financed by the Fund in the areas under in the Syrian opposition-held areas, with the approval of new projects, namely the support of the Civil Defense to remove debris and mines from 8 cities and towns in rural Aleppo governorate, and a project to rehabilitate and maintain warehouse and refrigerators of the Local Council in the town of Mare’.
“The approval of projects and their budgets will impact positively on the reality of services provided to the population in many areas of opposition control,” said Hadi al-Bahra, a member of the National Coalition.
“It would secure these areas and improve the services for the return of IDPs”, he added.