Since March 2011 Syria has been a theatre of war between the Assad government and numerous different armed groups. To date, more than half a million Syrians have died during the fighting and bombing, and many millions of people have had to flee: More than 12 million people have been displaced from their homes because of the war. About 5.6 million of them live as refugees mainly in neighbouring countries and worldwide. In the Idlib region alone, more than two million people are dependent on aid.
The Syrian war is one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time and the people in Syria are urgently dependent on your support!
Civilians in northwestern Syria are facing an unprecedented catastrophe. A renewed military offensive in the region has uprooted more than 500,000 Syrians since November last year, triggering a major humanitarian crisis.
Malteser International is deeply concerned by this development and calls for all parties to the conflict to bring an end to the Syrian conflict.
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Together with Turkish and Syrian partner organisations we carry out cross-border aid projects in the medical sector. We have been providing aid since summer 2012 especially to displaced persons within Syria who are unable or unwilling to leave the country.
Only 40 percent of Syria's pre-war health infrastructure is still functional. Since 2011, health care in the country has steadily deteriorated due to severe damage to health facilities, inadequate power supply and a glaring lack of medicines, consumables and medical personnel.
Our activities are carried out in partnership with the Syrian organization Independent Doctors Association (IDA), with whom we are operating:
Since 2017, we have been working with our Syrian partners Hand in Hand for Syria and Maram Foundation as well as with the Turkish Red Crescent in the Idlib region to provide aid to displaced persons. Our aid includes the distribution of material good and tents to the displaced. We are also supporting the operations of a hospital in Balayun and three basic health centres.
Batoul, herself a Syrian refugee in Turkey, is helping other refugees from the ongoing conflict in her homeland to deal with their often-traumatic experiences. She works with Malteser International to prepare projects in psycho-social support and trains partner organizations of Malteser International on psychologically related healthcare topics.
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Deep in mourning, 29-year-old Hamid is standing between the charred remains of his shelter inside a refugee camp near the town of Aldana in Syria. The war had forcibly displaced Hamid and his young family from their homes. The emergency shelter became home for the family until a fire broke out, leaeding to the death of their second youngest son.
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For many Syrian children living with chronic diseases, the war means not only coping with bombs, but also the challenge of their unmanaged health problems. 14-year-old Yusuf suffers from a chronic hepatic dysfunction. Our partnership with Hand in Hand foundation is enabling him receiving palliative treatments at the Jabel al Zawiyah pediatric clinic in Idlib.
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Eight years of brutal conflict in Syria and there is no end in sight. Millions of children like Lela have never known the peace of a home. The 18-month child refugee was lucky to survive a fire incident inside her family’s camp shelter in Sarmada, close to the Turkish border. See how Malteser International helped her family in their hour of difficulty.
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Stefanie Heil
+49-(0)221-96441-252
email: stefanie.heil(at)malteser-international.org
Capital: Damascus
Area: 185,180 km²
Population: approx. 18 Million
Project donors: German Federal Foreign Office (AA), German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany's Relief Coalition (ADH)
Last Updated: December 2018
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