Syrian IDPs demand Manbij administration help them cope with winter season
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – Displaced people from two camps in the countryside of Manbij have called on the city’s Civil Administration to provide urgent aid to help them cope with the winter season.
Displaced people in new and old eastern camps in the countryside of Manbij complain of their lack of supplies such as clothes, heaters, and fuel with the onset of winter, amid the tear of many tents that have become uninhabitable.
Yasser al-Mousa, a displaced resident of the new eastern Manbij camp, told North Press that the camp’s children are in need of winter clothes with the onset of winter.
“Many of the residents of informal and ad hoc camps in Manbij are waiting for the Civil Administration in Manbij to work on providing heaters and supplying them with diesel,” al-Mousa added.
Asmaa Ramo, the co-chair of the Social Affairs and Labor Committee in Manbij, told North Press that they are going to provide assistance to camp residents in Manbij in two phases in the next few days.
“The first phase of the aid will include winter clothes for children, as will be followed in the second phase, providing heaters for each tent with 220 liters of diesel as a first payment, in addition to replacing the worn out tents with new ones,” she added.
She did not specify a date for the delivery of aid to camp residents in Manbij, only saying, “This aid will reach the beneficiaries within the next few days.”
The number of residents of the new eastern camp and the old camp in Manbij is 969, the majority of whom are from the towns of Maskanah, Dayr Hafir, and al Khafsah, which are under the control of the Syrian government, according to the Social Affairs and Labor Committee in Manbij.