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The world is witnessing the largest refugee crisis since the horrors of World War II.

 

The majority of the refugees are from Syria. 

More than 4 million Syrian refugees are registered with the UN.

Another 7 million have been internally displaced. 

 

Over half of the entire population of the country has been uprooted since 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Syria is embroiled for over four years now in intense violence.

 

The Syrian Civil War has resulted in what is often referred to as “the worst refugee crisis of our generation".

 

Statista details how the Syrian refugee crisis compares to other refugee crises in the past few decades:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credit: Statista

 

In terms of sheer scale, the Syrian refugee crisis is significantly worse than those resulting from the US and Soviet wars in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, the genocide in Rwanda, the NATO bombing of Kosovo, and more.

 

Most of the refugees from Syria are youths. 

 

Middle East Eye reports 51% of Syrian asylum-seekers are under age 18, and 39% are under age 11.

In other words, two out of every five Syrian refugees are children under age 11.

 

The story that brought much of this suffering to the attention of the Western media was that of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian Kurd refugee whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach. The photo of his tiny figure went viral, and has become a symbol of the refugee crisis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credit: www.thedailybeast.com

 

Kurdi’s family say they applied for asylum in Canada, yet the Canadian government denied their application. The immigration ministry says the family’s application “was returned as it was incomplete.”

 

The crisis has also emboldened racists to be open with their anti-Arab bigotry. German neo-Nazis have attacked refugees and shelters created for asylum-seekers. “Europe responds to desperate refugees with razor wire and racism,” the Washington Post writes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUR ACTION IN SYRIA

 

 

• AFRDP gives immediate aid to internally displaced Syrians (we help them enter and find shelter in the Yarmouk camp among others),  and we help the other 3 millions Syrian refugees relocate in camps in neighbouring Turkey, Lebanon, & Jordan ( we work in the Kilis Ocunpinar and the Nizip camps in Turkey, the Zaatari camp in Jordan and the Shatilah camp in Lebanon).

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• AFRDP helps Syrians rebuild schools, businesses, and health systems for long term recovery.

 

• Emergency cash assistance from AFRDP helps families displaced by violence meet their immediate needs and begin to recover with dignity.

 

• Inside Syria, AFRDP and local partners helps clinics and mobile teams delivering primary care, trauma services, reproductive health care, and dialysis to thousands of people. 

 

• Distribution of milk for infants, clothes, antibiotics & immunization for children.

 

• AFRDP distributes Aqua boxes with pump & filter, food as healthy as possible, hygiene kits (soap, dental hygiene items, detergent, toiletries, sanitary items, ointments for babies..), and basic cooking kits for each family or each tent (6 people by tent ideally). 

 

• AFRDP is helping ensuring access to clean water in camps for displaced Syrians by building infrastructures and digging wells.

 

• AFRDP is planning to help build and run a Syrian orphanage. We will update you on the matter soon.

 

• AFRDP is looking for sponsors that would be willing to sponsor a child or a family on a monthly basis.