We will contiue distributing food aid to the displaced for two months – Syriac organization in Qamishli

Distributing food aid to Sere Kaniye displaced by Syriac Cross – North Press

Qamishli – North-Press Agency
Reem Chamoun – Charbel Hanno

 

The Syriac Cross organization (Concerned with Relief Affairs, based in Qamishli), announced on Tuesday that it will continue providing food aid to the displaced people of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tal Abyad during this month and the next.

Malik Hanna, the official of the organization that has been active in the region since 2013, said that in cooperation with Mahfaza al-Samery Organization (an international non-governmental organization working in the relief field), they distributed 400 food baskets to the displaced people of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tal Abyad who are being housed in 17 sheltering centers in Hasakah, Tal Tamr and their countryside during the lockdown, and that they will continue providing aid during April and May.

 

He pointed out that during the distribution process, they followed all health measures to prevent the transmission of diseases, saying: “We took full precautions against coronavirus, in terms of wearing medical gloves and masks, especially when moving among villages and towns to cover most centers, as we were focusing heavily on the matter of sterilization, whether for the organization’s employees, or for the beneficiaries within the centers.”  

He added that this initiative will continue, after renewing their contract with Mahfaza al-Samery Organization, where food aid will be distributed and aid delivered to 400 families every month.  

“It is likely that most people prefer medical assistance at the present time, because the risk of an outbreak of coronavirus within the camps is contained, but this food aid is also useful to help the displaced,” he said.  

 

The Syriac Cross Foundation, in partnership with local organizations, and with the support of international organizations, distributed nearly 3,000 food baskets in the areas of Derik, Tirbe-Spi (Qahtaniya), Qamishli, Hasakah, Tal Tamr and their respected countrysides, after the Turkish military invasion in the eastern Euphrates region in October last year, according to Hanna.