US funding freeze upends global aid, brings Syrian civil society to a standstill
As the Trump administration slashes foreign aid, Syrian civil society is left reeling at a time when it is most needed.
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02, 2025
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02, 2024
With little support, thousands of Syrians homeless one year after earthquake
One year after the February 6 earthquake, tens of thousands of Syrian survivors are still homeless, without enough support to repair and rebuild their homes. Aid workers stress the importance of early recovery to facilitate returns and provide livelihoods.
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08, 2023
Washing machine dreams in Idlib’s displacement camps
Women in Idlib’s displacement camps are working and strategizing to obtain washing machines and free themselves from the drudgery of hand washing.
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03, 2023
Twelve years of an aid quagmire in Syria
The international community’s failure to adequately help victims of the February 6 earthquake in northwestern Syria encapsulated the main ills of the aid sector in Syria over 12 years of uprising and conflict.
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08, 2022
Disillusioned by UN inertia, Syrians raise funds for parched desert camp
In May, UNICEF abruptly reduced the water supply to Rukban camp, in Syria’s southern desert. Feeling abandoned by the international community, local groups and Syrian aid organizations are stepping in to relieve the parched camp.
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07, 2021
Medical and food blockades deepen the ordeal of al-Rukban’s forgotten Syrian inhabitants
In addition to the food blockade imposed by the Assad regime since 2016, al-Rukban camp, in the no-man's-land along the Syrian-Jordanian border, suffers a medical blockade following the close of the UNICEF medical point on the Jordanian side of the border in March 2020.