Women’s groups hold event for women with disabilities in Syria’s Washo Kani Camp
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, the Women’s Council in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and the Labor Authority organized an event for women with disabilities in Washo Kani in northeastern Syria’s Washo Kani Camp for the coming International Women’s Day.
Jihan Rashid, a member of the Women’s Council and the supervisor of the event, said “this activity was held in coordination with the Social Affairs Section and Labor Authority.”
“We focused on women with special needs who were displaced and residing in Washo Kani camp, to highlight them and bring joy and happiness into their hearts so that these women could know International Women’s Day and what it means,” she added.
“As the Women’s Council, all our activities focus on the handicapped, the displaced, and children, and we are concerned with these people with the aim of bringing joy into their hearts,” Rashid added.
Camp administrator Ster Reshik explained that after the Turkish invasion of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel Abyad (Gire Spi), hundreds of thousands were displaced towards the Hasakah district, where the Autonomous Administration, in cooperation with the Kurdish Red Crescent Organization, began to establish the camp on October 24, 2019. The camp contains 1,800 tents inhabited by approximately 2,390 families.
“As the March 8 approached, we, as the administration of Washo Kani camp, coordinated with the Women’s Council to establish an activity for people with special needs in the camp to draw joy and happiness on their faces and forgetting them is part of their suffering.” She added.
“There are many cases of disabilities in the camp, such as mental and physical disabilities, and international organizations provide the necessary support for them,” Reshik added.
Zarga Abdulqadir, a displaced woman from Arisha near Sere Kaniye, has a daughter with an intellectual disability. She said that they suffer a lot after they fled their homes during the Turkish invasion of their areas, but added that they look forward to such activities to make their hearts and the hearts of their children just a little happier.