URGENT APPEAL: help Syrian families like Khitam’s survive the winter.

Khitam lives with her four young children, husband Abdelsalam, and his elderly parents in a single, damp room of a half-built apartment block near Tripoli, Lebanon.

There are holes in the walls and ceiling and, right now, Khitam is terrified by the prospect of another winter where her family will feel every blast of icy wind. Another winter where every time their children cough or sneeze she will fear they have a lethal respiratory condition like pneumonia or tuberculosis.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, needs your support to help parents protect their children this winter. Please will you give £75 to provide a refugee family like Khitam’s with a winter survival kit to protect against the freezing weather? The kit contains essentials such as a heating stove, thermal blankets and a tarpaulin for insulation. It could mean survival for a family like Khitam’s.

Across Lebanon and Jordan, six of the last seven winters have brought heavy snowfall and temperatures regularly drop below 0°C.

This winter, the lives of the most vulnerable refugees: young children, pregnant women and the elderly, are at grave risk from hypothermia, frostbite and diseases like pneumonia.

With a gift of £75 you can provide a winter survival kit containing a stove, blankets, jerry can and a tarpaulin to help a family insulate and heat their home. Please give today.

“Living here, in these conditions, I cannot keep my children healthy.”