Home-Accommodation for Syrian Returnees, Displaced Abroad

DAMASCUS,(ST)- Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Dr. Jassim Mohammed Zakaria said that the Higher Committee for Relief was assigned to provide fully equipped shelters for affected families, residing outside the Syrian borders, so as  to enable them to return back home.

Presiding over a meeting for the said committee, the minister explained that the ministry of State for the Syrian Red Crescent, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society, in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC were assigned to take immediate action to visit the families in the camps in neighboring countries and invite them to safe return to their areas.

He pointed out that the Relief committee was able to secure the Winter season’s basic needs and requirements for a large number of temporary residence centers and social and humanitarian protection to residents inside and outside these centers, noting that urgent relief aids will be provided through al-Sheikh Saad center in Damascus.
For his part, Minister of State for Syrian Red Crescent Joseph Sweed that the committee is working to provide necessary assistance to families who were forced to leave their homes by the armed terrorist groups, noting that necessary measures were taken in this regard.

Ministry of Health representative Dr. Ahmad al-Abboud said that during the few coming weeks , the ministry will launch a vaccination campaign for hepatitis, in the temporary residence centers.

Representatives of the Ministries of Labour and Social Affairs, Education , Health , local administration , Al-Awqaf and State for National Reconciliation ,the Syrian Commission for Family Affairs and non-governmental organizations , community-based initiatives, unions and grassroots organizations, attended the meeting.

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