Emergencies in Syria Archives

Stop sanctions. After 10 years of war Syria is now under the ‘bomb’ of poverty

23/03/2021 Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, News, Press Release, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

Ahead of the fifth European Union donor conference on Syria, Caritas Internationalis shed light on the situation in Syria and urges the international community to act during the conference “Church and Caritas: 10 years of humanitarian response in Syria”.

Caritas with Syrians through ten years of war, displacement and humanitarian crisis

16/03/2021 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

The closeness of Caritas with the vulnerable people of Syria has grown stronger and stronger during ten years of war. We look back at just some of the moments of Caritas’s work during ten years of war in Syria.

Caritas Syria staff Elias : “helping people while experiencing the same crisis ourselves”

12/03/2021 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

Elias Hamwi has worked as a Caritas Syria project coordinator in the eastern part of Aleppo for over three years. Here he reflects on the challenges facing Syrians and Caritas staff, who also face the struggles of life in a war-torn country.

Caritas confederation close to the Syrian population throughout ten years of war serving ten million people

12/03/2021 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria by Caritas Internationalis

Caritas Confederation has served more than 1 million Syrians annually over the past 10 years as they faced bombings, hunger and one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world.

Life in Syria eight years into the war

14/02/2019 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Caritas Internationalis

Syria reaches a grim anniversary in March: eight years of civil war. After half a million deaths, with 11.6 million people forced from home, the nation is on its knees. Caritas is working inside Syria to help rebuild shattered lives.

Syria’s Share the Journey Solidarity Walk in Ghouta

21/12/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Ffion Dean

Caritas Syria walked side by side with scout groups and the secondary school students of Medaa in the destroyed streets of their village in Ghouta.

Interfaith partnership helps displaced families in Syria

20/11/2018 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Syria by Ffion Dean

The civil war in Syria forced Maram and her family to flee without any possessions. Five years later they’re still homeless and yet to return. Security has improved in the capital, Damascus, and the family’s hometown in the adjoining villages in the Ghouta countryside, but the humanitarian situation remains critical. Winter is on its way ...

Aid to Syria’s Ghouta devastated by longest siege in modern history

18/09/2018 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Myra Soetandyo

Lina’s family has suffered death, hunger, homelessness and been deprived of basic necessities because of Syria’s civil war. They live in Eastern Ghouta, an area that had endured “the longest running siege in modern history”, the UN said in a recent report. In April 2013, pro-government forces encircled what was then a militant-controlled area bordering Damascus, the capital ...

How Caritas helps in Syria

13/09/2018 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Health, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Ffion Dean

To escape Islamic State militants, Fowziah Daher, a widow and mother of four children, hid alone for several days in a Syrian olive field. She and her family had been seeking refuge at a farm when the militants arrived. She told her children to run away without her. The family had just come on foot ...

Share the journey meal with refugees in Syria: challenges and rewards

26/07/2018 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Internationalis

Blog by Sandra Awad, communications officer for Caritas Syria Caritas Internationalis recently invited us to organise an “encounter meal” in a community with migrants and/or refugees. It would be part of the Share the Journey campaign which was launched by Pope Francis in 2017 and is focused on providing spaces and opportunities to bring migrants/refugees ...