Kuwait boosts aid for displaced Syrian children
Kuwaiti humanitarian organizations are exerting great efforts to rescue children of displaced families in Aleppo northern Syria and those seeking refuge in Turkey. Children are the most affected category in the ongoing war, especially in such low winter temperatures. Displaced Syrians are living in severe conditions lacking the basic needs of life including water, electricity, medicine and food.
There are many tragic stories that tell the suffering of Syrians in the past six years, one is of a family of six girls who lost their father in an air raid two years ago. The mother, Aisha AlOwaily, 44, is receiving treatment for extreme tension and fatigue due to the tragedies her family had suffered. Owaily said in an interview she also lost one of her daughters at the age of 23 and her two grandsons. She added that her other daughters and grandsons were all injured in the ongoing war.
Meanwhile, head of the Syria office at Al-Rahma International Waleed Al-Suwailem said the organization is running projects for education, mental support and entertainment for Syrian children. Rahma is strongly focusing on the mental health of children who witnessed the horrors of war and death, he said, adding that the organization has sent a specialized team of psychiatrists to carry out this duty. Moreover, it is also funding several schools in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, said Suwailem.
In the meantime, head of public relations and media department at Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Khaled Al-Zaid, said humanitarian organizations pay less attention to those displaced inside Syria, as they provide further aid and shelter to those outside. He noted that despite the bad conditions in refugee camps outside Syria, they are still far better than those inside, which lack many basic needs of survival.
The red crescents of Kuwait, Qatar, and Turkey are providing food and blankets to displaced Syrians, he said, however, more work need to be done in cooperation with international bodies. Zaid also noted that KRCS is executing many projects to provide proper education and medical services for Syrian refugees in neighboring countries.