Social initiative holds First-aid training for university students

A social initiative called “My hand for you all’ has organized several first-aid courses for university students to spread health awareness and the culture of volunteerism among them.

The courses focus on training students on how to act in emergency conditions in order to increase the number of well-qualified persons in first aid services, one of the initiative’s founders Wissm al-Halabi told the official news agency (SANA).

He added that the initiative seeks to create a university students teams to educate community about the right thing to do in crises and how to use first aid devices to protect persons’ safety.   

 Al-Halabi called on Syrian youth to effectively participate in the initiative and to benefit from its activities that aim to promote teamwork.

“The Syrian youth is able to be creative in all circumstances,” he stressed, indicating that each course includes 25 students from 5 faculties.

The initiative’s team is composed of 11 young persons from different faculties and it cooperates with Damascus university and the ‘Khebrat’ [experiences] initiative.

It targets students in the faculties that have been exposed to terror mortar fire, such as the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical engineering.

Basma Qaddour