Multiple forms of suffering in Jaramana suburb of Damascus

Damascus – North-Press Agency

Ahmed Kanaan

Jaramana suburb, adjacent to the capital Damascus, where the suffering of the people intensifies as the rationing of electricity lasts three hours, while three hours are provided intermittently and with different capacities, one is strong stuns and disrupts electrical devices and breaks them down, another is weak that does not operate the devices besides malfunctions in the network, and the poor response of emergency. In addition to the problem of unpaved roads, the proliferation of stray dogs and the lack of safe drinking water.

In a poll conducted by North-Press, employee Khozama Hassan said: "Surprisingly, the municipality renews the asphalting of pre-asphalted roads and leaves the dirt roads in the area of Karm Smadi with its mud and rubbish," she ironically added: "It is impossible to understand this creativity that the city council is doing!” While Anton Moawad, spoke about the problem of drinking water and said: “This problem is chronic for decades, I have been here for more than thirty years and the drinking water has never been available, so we have to buy clean water on a daily basis.” He added surprisingly: “Al-duwaila neighborhood is adjacent to Jaramana, but the drinking water is available there, so why is it not supplied to Jarmana?"

Moawad said that he understands the circumstances the country is going through due to the long years ago war, "But no one thinks of us, when the water is supplied, the electricity is cut off, so we cannot fill the tanks because we can’t operate the pumps, as if this torture is intended," he added.

Talking about the power outages and the network malfunctions caused by the excessive loads which are almost non-existent in some neighborhoods, Maryam Abdullah said: "We stayed for three days without electricity as a result of the burning of the cable that feeds the building, where we reside after the excessive insist on emergency, they finally responded and changed the cable.”

Malak al-Mufti talked about the poor quality of transportation: "I go out to work before more than an hour and I need to walk to the first bus stop in order to have a ride. When my work time is up, the suffering starts again, in addition to the heavy traffic jam, sometimes I spend more than half an hour in Jaramana," she explained that this traffic jam problem persists despite the presence of traffic police in the streets of Jaramana. She said ironically: "I think it is an impossible problem to be solved!”

Maram Hasan, in addition to bearing all the problems previously explained she has another problem, she said: “I am forced every day to take my daughter into school, because she is afraid of the stray dogs, which are spread in a dense way in the streets," she called the city council to end this problem.

Komait al-Ghadban, expressed his dissatisfaction with the nightclubs that are around the outskirts of Jaramana and in some residential neighborhoods, in addition to the type of customers whuvisit, and the low ranked songs that reach the children’s ears, he said: "While we do not know how to secure a living, these low-grade clubs spread with their poisons that increase the ruin and corruption in the society," he added cynically: "The heaps of rubbish scattered in the streets seem acceptable compared to these clubs!”