Volunteer Campaign Launched to Rehabilitate Ghouta Schools

DAMASCUS – Hundreds of Syrian youth and students have got dressed and put on work clothes, spread in a number of terror-affected schools and service centers in the Eastern Ghouta and started rehabilitation and maintenance and cleaning works with great vigor, SANA reported.

The campaign included the service centers in the towns of Kafr Batna, Ein Tarma, Zamalka, Saqba and Arbin, in addition to 2 schools in Daraya in the western Ghouta with the aim of rehabilitating schools, health centers, streets and public squares in the aforementioned areas.

During the month-long campaign, the buses carrying participants arrived in front of Saqba school at 8:00 am after which the volunteers started to remove debris, clean the classrooms, repair windows, rehabilitate destroyed walls and paint the schools. All works are implemented in cooperation with teachers and engineers and specialized workers.

The participants are determined to convey a message to the entire world that Syria is recovering and dusting off war debris to return stronger and more beautiful thanks to the strong will of its people and youth.

The campaign is organized in cooperation with the National Union of Syrian Students, the Syrian Trust for Development, the Revolution Youth Union, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East.  It will continue its efforts to reach all towns in al-Ghouta and al-Zabadani area.