Give Support to 800 Syrian Refugee Families

An hour's drive from Beirut high in the mountains of the Beeka-Plateau exists a tent city. Thousands of Syrian refugees live in self-built tents. So also Isam, how came with his family. Water they get from a Fountain. Some families were able to prcure generators to produce some energy, but gasoline is expensive, like everything in Lebanon. At night, the tent city therefore remains dark.

Isam  fled with his wife and seven children 18 months ago from Syria. "It was useless, we could not continue to live there and I knew from the beginning, that the war-situation will take a long time." He settled in and improvises from morning till night. "Look, I've dug a small ditch for rainwater, but if it does not flow into our tent, it arrives at the neighbors."

Medical care is expensive

The tent city is only tolerated. Official camps are not established, so even a minimum level of organization does not exist. For the piece of land on which his tent is is build, Isam pays $ 600 a year. His wife is now working as a Cleaner and earns 100 dollars a month. So the family has at least a small income, but there is not enough back and forth. After a long lasting Diarrhea Issams youngest daughter suffers from malnutrition. A doctor visit costs at least 50 dollars in Lebanon. For the treatment of the daughter, the family relies on the commitment of humanitarian organizations.

DKH provides emergency assistance

Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe supports families in tentcity with food and distributes stoves, blankets and clothing, so that the families can survive the coming winter - Because it's getting cold in the Bekaa-Plateau between the two mountain ranges, which gave the country its name.

We are so happy that you supported our cause so generous. With this amount we could already help 150 Syrian families. But it's so much more to do. That's why we rewuest you to open your heart futher so that we can helf even more. Thank's a lot.

Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe helps Syrian refugees in several countries, also in Turkey.
With 1.9 million refugees, Turkey is currently the country that has taken up the most refugees from Syria, and from Iraq, mostly displaced persons. Above all, the majority of the refugees live outside the camps. They have a hard everyday live and suffer from food shortages, lack of labor and prospects. In addition to the daily struggle traumatic memories of the expulsions and escape are coming up. We help those people, who live outside the official refugee camps and who are vulnerable and especially threatened by poverty.
Approximately one third of refugee families are suffering from the death of at least one relative. In addition to the traumatic experiences they had in their home and on the run, this is another reason for the urgent need for psychosocial assistance. Half of all refugees are children and most of them suffer partly severe trauma.
Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe has been active since 2012 in cooperation with the Partner Support to Life (STL) on site. The first emergency relief projects were addressed to Syrian refugees in the provinces of Hatay, Kilis and Gaziantep and provided them with food parcels, hygiene supplies and blankets. For subsequent projects a voucher system was introduced that distributes coupons for independent retailers of food and hygiene items every month. After the influx of refugees from Kobane (Syria) in September 2014, the DKH with STL supplied about 500 Kurdish families from Kobane and Yezidi families from northern Iraq with hygiene kits, cooking utensils, food parcels and blankets. The host communities are included in the help: In community centers kindergartens are established for all groups.
Even the emergency aid program in the provinces of Hatay, Gaziantep and Sanlurfa and the cities Dyarbakir and Batman will be continued also with funds from the Federal Foreign Office and the European Union this year. Thus, the refugees living outside the camps they are supplied with debit cards. Without the right to work the so-called "cash assistance" is in many cases a lifesaver, especially for the refugees, who are poor, socially disadvantaged poor and socially and have little to eat. This type of support helps the refugees to gain a stable and independent live, because they can buy things in a self-sufficient way according to they urgent needs.
Thank you for your support of this important work!