Donation campaign to help low-income families in Euphrates region launched
Kobani – North-Press Agency
Fattah Issa
Through a statement it made on Sunday, the Social Affairs and Labor Authority in the Euphrates region in northeastern Syria launched a campaign under the title "A social participatory initiative" to collect donations for low-income individuals from all parts of society and to activate the social support fund.
The co-chair of the Social Affairs and Labor Authority Suleiman Sattam al-Kuaishish told North-Press that the campaign aims to collect donations for people with limited income in the the Euphrates region as well as internally displaced people coming from areas occupied by Turkey in northeastern Syria (Gre-Spi (Tal Abyad) and Sere-Kaniye (Ras al-Ain).
On Tuesday, the Social Affairs and Labor Authority in the Euphrates region began distributing 1,700 food parcels to the residents of the city of Kobani and its countryside with the aim of helping families affected by the lockdown.
al-Kuaishish explained that the food baskets which were distributed in the Euphrates region recently were not enough for all families with low incomes due to the increase in their numbers after the recent wave of displacement from the areas of Tal Abyad and Sere-Kaniye. This was in addition to the quarantine measures in northeastern Syria that left thousands without work.
Al-Kuaishish said that the launch of the campaign is also due to the weak capabilities of the Social Affairs and Labor Authority in the Euphrates region in terms of meeting the needs of people with limited income from the region's population in addition to displaced people.
He explained that the collection of donations within the Euphrates region will be through special committees affiliated with the Social Affairs and Labor Authority, and that "they will visit those with financial capabilities and those who wish to donate, while donations will be collected from outside the region by communicating with them to determine the mechanism for sending donations."
The donations will be distributed in a number of ways to the people of low-income who have been affected by the lockdown, including financial aid, food baskets, health care insurance or health assistance, according to al-Kuaishish.