AANES launches projects to reduce youth migration in Syria’s northeast
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Youth and Sport Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) is planning to launch several development projects to reduce youth migration, co-chair of Youth and Sport Board, Maha Muhammad, said on Thursday.
In a statement issued today, the Youth and Sport Board said that the phenomenon of youth migration is “a special phase of war impacts that is addressed against our region.”
“The administration will hold several symposiums in order to reduce the youth migration phenomenon, open training and cultural centers, and organize sport events,” Muhammad told North Press.
“These projects and events aim at strengthening ties between youth people and society in order to spare them from the impacts of migration on the society and the young people in the first place,” she added.
The administration is about to launch a questionnaire for the residents of northeast Syria in order to know the reasons and circumstances after the youth migration in an attempt to find solutions for difficulties that the young people are facing, according to Muhammad.
“The policy of evacuating the region of young people is followed in order to facilitate the prevalence of negative social phenomena such as drugs and illiteracy,” she noted.
On August 7, the co-chair of the AANES Executive Council, Abd Hamed al-Mehbash, said that the administration has allocated, this year, a budget for the Youth and Sport Board in all fields.