A number of service projects implemented in Al-Hajar Al-Aswad to facilitate the return of displaced people

With the aim of facilitating and securing the return of the displaced people to their homes in the city of Al-Hajar Al-Aswad in the countryside of Damascus, the service workshops affiliated to a number of sectors carried out several works in the area including rehabilitating the electrical network to deliver electricity to homes, according to the head of the local council in the city, Eng. Khaled Khamis.

136 houses have been rehabilitated and renovated by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Organization, and work is underway to restore 300 other houses by their owners, Khamis said, pointing out that the number of families who have actually moved back to live in the city exceeds 150 families.

Rehabilitation work for the health center in Damascus Countryside governorate will be completed within days and the Health Directorate in Quneitra governorate will rehabilitate its health centre in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program “UNDP”, he added.

He also said that work is underway to complete the rehabilitation of sewage lines in the main streets of Tishreen neighborhood in cooperation with the International First Aid Organization, while the International Red Cross Organization has completed the implementation of a project to maintain and replace the sewage line passing through the city of Al-Hajar Al-Aswad to the Al-Qadam area towards the Yarmouk pumping station, at a length of 1800 meters. Part of the sewage line in Al-Thawra neighborhood in the city has been rehabilitated, he pointed out.