Winter from another perspective and in a part of the earth.. The season of testing, suffering and difficulties
The suffering of the displaced in the camps of northern Syria worsens every year with the onset of the winter season, with the intensification of its cold, the high rate of rain, and the start of snowfall.
People are suffering a lot in war zones that are limited to the minimum necessities of life, and with the new displacement movements from camp to camp due to military operations, the situation has worsened to become worse, and with it the winter needs have increased dramatically this year compared to previous years.
The needs, as a start, are a great need for heating materials, as the means of heating differ from one camp to another according to the location of the camp and the available materials. Some camps depend for heating on fuel (diesel or kerosene), and some depend on coal, firewood, or pyrene (Olive –Pit charcoal ), but one of the worst heating methods is that which depend on burning clothes and plastic materials, which causes health damage to camp residents and a great fear of fires, as the number of fires documented since the beginning of this year broke out in 148 camps. Humanitarian organizations have worked in the past years to secure heating materials, blankets, shoes and winter clothes to protect families when temperatures drop and from contracting cold diseases.
There is also a problem with rainfall and water entering the camps, destroying what is inside and uprooting some of them due to rainstorms and torrential rains. Humanitarian organizations have solved this problem as much as they can by replacing and rebuilding the damaged tents and graveling their floors to prevent water leakage during heavy rains, in addition to providing the tents with external insulation to protect families from the severity of cold and rainwater leakage, and repairing damaged roads.
We Plus Group helped secure the winter needs of the displaced by securing various heating materials, including fuel oil and stoves, securing blankets and winter clothes, providing food baskets and hygiene equipment, in addition to securing tents and residential blocks, and carrying out road graveling operations, in addition to gravel work and tent floor insulation.