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Cartias Luxembourg has launched an appeal for donations to support its humanitarian aid efforts for displaced Syrians.
The conflict in Syria shows no signs of abating, with the Idlib region having been the target of new bombings and fighting over the past weeks. According to Caritas Luxembourg, displaced people who had taken refuge in the region have been forced once again to flee a few kilometres further to escape the conflict. These people leave everything behind.
Caritas Luxembourg has been working in Syria, particularly in the Idlib region, since the start of the conflict in 2011. Although the kitchen that provided food for thousands of displaced people had to be evacuated in recent days, Caritas was able to re-establish the kitchen a few kilometres away. 10,500 new displaced people have thus been receiving a hot meal, bread and a cold meal in the evening each day. Volunteers have also distributed warm clothes, blankets, mattresses, kitchen utensils, soap and sanitary items and families have received vouchers.
In addition to food aid, and with hundreds of thousands of people trying to survive the cold in improvised tents in fields and on the roadside, the NGO partner of Caritas Luxembourg has been distributing material to families so that they can build emergency shelters themselves with plastic sheeting. Abandoned buildings are being transformed into simple shelters with wooden planks and sanitary facilities.
To help support these efforts, Caritas Luxembourg has asked for donations, either via bank transfer to its account CCPL IBAN LU34 1111 0000 2020 0000 (mention “Syria”) or online at www.caritas.lu.
