As the rain poured, the mangled door opened all the pain from the crisis in the face of a young girl, who was carrying her backpack and calling for her grandmother:” Granny, there are guests at the door!”

Filled with wrinkles, each of which carried embedded stories and worries, Grandmother M went through so much pain throughout the years, whereby she suffered from displacement, poverty, and worst of all, the loss of her son, who left her with his four daughters.

However frail, granny M did her best to take care of her granddaughters, the eldest of whom was a fifth-grade student. One of them suffered from a lump in the brain that led to a disability in the right hand and foot, and another from vision impairment, and the youngest from a seizure due to a previous fall.

A soon as SSSD’s facilitators heard of the unfortunate family’s situation, they rushed to help them. Surprisingly, though, the grandmother refused their help.

Consequently, the team had to respect granny M’s wishes, and helped by providing stationery and some winter clothes to protect the granddaughters during winter, trying to bring the smile back to their faces.
The little girls expressed their happiness by saying: "How beautiful we became! We are now wearing nice clothes, just like our friends…."

Also, granny M thanked SSSD, who in turn, respected her desire and thanked her back for being there for her four flowers, and helping them with all her might.

Mr. Akram, a 63-year-old retired employee, is a new return to Al Hosen with his family of four and his elderly mother with special needs in a house in the bush far from the city's serviced residential area.
Mr. Akram was identified after his visit to the community center in Al-Hosn and explained his conditions and taking all the information. Accordingly, the family was visited by a team of volunteers of the center to make an assessment need of the family conditions.
The evaluation found that the family suffers from extreme poverty and there is no provider except for Mr. Akram, who works in agricultural lands, and who suffers from chronic diseases. The house where the family lives is in a very bad condition and needs many services. The family uses candles for lighting, which is a burden on the family to buy. It also causes danger to the old mother as she moves around the house when the power is down due to her poor vision.
Mr. Akram asked for a battery and LEDs. And they were given to him from the file of in-kind assistance, and when visiting the family after providing the service and talking with them about the importance of the service, Mr. Akram said: " God bless you all and thank you for everything”.

Iman , a 45-year-old mother of seven children and a provider for her family because of her husband physical disability due to age-related diseases of clotting and saccharin, this made him bedridden and suffering from many physical ulcers, the family fled from Soran to Idlib because of the war and returned when civilians were allowed to enter their houses to find her house destroyed. She lived in her sister's house after renovating herself, and she was exposed to many accidents during the restoration. The house lacked any basic necessities of life. She and her children suffered a lot of water transfer from a remote location because there was no reservoir or well nearby.
She visited SSSD community center in Soran and registered for a water tank and air mattresses for her sick husband. The volunteers visited her, met the family by seeing the children moving the water in the winter from a well away from home to put it in drums and open containers, use it for drink and food and for her sick husband and he is lying all day long.
After a short period of delivery of the tank and the air mattress, Iman expressed her gratitude and happiness for the alleviation of the suffering and that the exposure of her children to diseases due to open water and colds during the transfer of water will be much less.

Sana, 20 years old, living with her parents in the city of Hama suffers from the birth of paralysis of quadrilateral spasmodic partial upper and full lower limb, she has been under several operations, but could not walk and never went out of the house which caused her psychological pressure, we know her condition through the ORVs of the Syrian Society for Social Development, and they registered her for medical assistance.
After a short period, she was served with a wheelchair to help her move inside and outside the house. She began to rely on herself to move as much as possible. She even participated in the vocational training of the handicrafts that SSSD also provides and now she is coming to SSSD center and see it as her second home, and the biggest help in her life.

Zeina, The 12-years-old girl suffers from a disability in her feet, she is unable to move, she lives with her parents and siblings in the village Shat-ha , Hama, Her parents work in the agricultural land to secure the life requirements, her parents tried to get her back to school to complete her education and get her out of her situation , So her parents have to carry her and take her to school, but when they go to work, she stays at home alone and kip school.
The volunteers at the Syrian Society for Social Development \ Beit Al-Ward Community Center visited her home and when we talked to her parents, we found out that the economic situation of the family was bad. We referred Zeina to the medical aid file and registered her need to a wheelchair.
After a short while, we called her mother to the community center to receive the wheelchair. Her mother told us that when she sat on the chair, she was very happy and her feelings were indescribable. "I can move and go to my school like my siblings and friends” she said,
After a while we asked about her condition to find out that Zeina is not leaving the school where she will continue her education like the rest of her friends.

Mrs. Rawda is a resident of the village of Jousa in the governorate of Hama. She is a widow and has seven children who have been displaced more than once. The house was stolen during their displacement and they were not present in the area. During the visit of the ORVs to them, they monitored the great suffering in washing clothes for her children, especially that three of them are still really young,
She said, "I have seven children. I work in the land to secure my child after the death of their father. I had a small washing machine, and it was stolen. I did not consider it a big loss till after I have been suffering from eczema and having the pain from the manual washing where I became forced to work for even more hours to cover my family's expenses and my medicine expenses.
The Syrian Society for Social Development team visited us at home and saw how much we need the washing machine, and after a period, they contacted with me and we got the washing machine. I only thank the Syrian Society for Social Development for what they gave me and my family, Where I no longer need to spend money on medicines and now I spending money only on my children, and my children's clothes came back as they were clean before. "

Displaced from Raqqa, Salman’s family who currently live in a rustic rural room in the foothills of a mountain village of rural Banias, managed finally to secure fresh drinking water after receiving in-kind assistance from SSSD-Tartous, namely, a water tank with its necessary accessories.
Salman, who is the sole breadwinner of an eight-member family (including a war-disabled daughter who lost her foot due to the explosion of an AXO), asserts that the water storage tank secures his family safe, potable water for cooking and drinking, whereas they previously relied on a barrel which was only suitable for specific uses.
It is noteworthy that the SSSD team monitored the situation of the family, who suffer from severe shortage of living basic necessities, as they fled home in a panic and were therefore unable to bring along any supplies. Salman’s family wishes to be targeted with other in-kind assistance because of their dire need and extreme economic destitution.