In response to curbing the outbreak of COVID-19, and with the aim to protect everyone and ensure their safety, the team of the Syrian Society for Social Development at the Echo of Joy Community Center implemented an initiative to distribute posters, awareness brochures, masks, and medical gloves in cooperation with the municipality.
The initiative targeted gathering areas, such as public ovens, bread distributors, food and vegetables stores, pharmacies, the municipality and schools.
In addition, posters were put in the aforementioned places, and awareness brochures were distributed in order to communicate the prevention methods that would help in limiting the spread of COVID-19. Furthermore, face masks and medical gloves were distributed to the bread distributors in order to promote good practices while distributing bread.
In the end, the residents expressed the need to raise awareness and adhere to preventive measures in light of the current situation.
With the aim to maintain everyone’s safety and protection, and in line with the precautionary and preventive measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, the Syrian Society for Social Development team, in cooperation with the municipal council in Shabaa, implemented an initiative that targeted the area’s residents within the CLI programme at the Echo of Joy WGSS in Shabaa, Rural Damascus.
During the initiative, the team worked, under the direction of the municipality, to distribute purification tablets in the residents’ tanks in order to purify the water used daily for washing and cleaning.
Furthermore, they assisted in sterilization campaigns of the main and subsidiary streets, gathering areas and public facilities.
The residents expressed their gratitude, and explained the importance of this step in limiting the spread of the disease. They also stressed the importance of repeating such initiatives during the coming period.
In addition, one of the women expressed how she felt reassured that once the purification tablets were put, and said:” Now, I am relieved! I am reassured to have clean water which wouldn’t infect my children whenever they wash or use it.”
In the context of precautionary measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, and with the aim of spreading community awareness about this epidemic and the need to follow preventive measures, the Syrian Society for Social Development team, in cooperation with UNHCR, implemented a sterilization initiative in Ashrafiet Al-Wadi and Jdeidet Al-Wadi, Rural Damascus, within the CLI programme.
During the initiative, the team coordinated with the municipality and party team in the area, and sterilized the most crowded places such as the municipality, dispensaries, public ovens, and public facilities.
Additionally, they distributed awareness messages to the local community, including information on the importance of personal hygiene, the correct use of disinfectants, the importance of social distancing, and the need to avoid crowded places.
Residents expressed their gratitude for the sterilization initiative, and were enthusiastic about implementing the same initiative in schools in order to protect children and ensure their safety before returning to school.
Following the national preventive measures aimed at liming the spread of COVID-19 and strengthening the national preparedness level, the Syrian Society for Social Development in cooperation with the United Nations high Commissioner for Refugees conducted a community- led initiative “Maintain Social Distancing” targeting public bakery ovens (Sett Zainab), at which low-income people stand in queues.
Not only did the team raise the awareness level of people about the importance of maintaining social distancing, but they also distributed face masks and gloves and sterilized the hands of the bakery workers and the customers.
Further, the team glued informative posters around the targeted public bakery ovens. The posters illustrated preventive measures, the correct way of washing hands, the correct way of wearing face masks and when to wear them? How does the disease spread?
