Following appeals by displaced people | Bureau of organisations’ affairs in Al-Raqqah distributes heating allowances and humanitarian aid

Inhabitants of refugee camps and settlement centres have appealed to humanitarian organisations, via the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, to check their disastrous situation, as winter approaches. This appeal has prompted the bureau of organisations’ affairs in Al-Raqqah to check the situation in these camps and fulfil the displaced people’s demands.

 

In an exclusive interview with SOHR, the chairman of the bureau of organisations’ affairs in Al-Raqqah, Munawar Al-Majed says that officials from the bureau headed to makeshift camps inhabited by displaced Syrian people in different areas in Al-Raqqah last month in order to check the situation on the ground and fulfil major needs of these displaced families whose number approximates 17,000 inhabiting 58 camps in Al-Raqqah city and countryside.

 

Al-Majed says “yesterday, we headed to the camps of Sahlat Al-Banat, Kesret Mohamed Ali and Al-Sawafi, whose inhabitants are struggling with dreadful living conditions. In cooperation with humanitarian organisations operating in the area, we provided support and relief aid, including heaters, mattress, blankets, diesel and money. The number of beneficiary families has reached 300 in Sahlat Al-Banat camp and 200 others in camps located to the south of the river. We will continue distributing aid to all inhabitants in Al-Raqqah camps in the incoming days in order to help the largest possible number of displaced families in Al-Raqqah.”

 

Through SOHR, Al-Majed has appealed to the humanitarian organisations and international community not to abandon the displaced people in Al-Raqqah, whose number exceeds 100,000 people, according to the bureau’s statistics.