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.
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. "
Modern technology and smart devices are the necessities of modern life, but the addiction to their use causes many negative effects. Therefore, the Syrian Society for Social Development team in cooperation with the UNHCR helda session to protect the childrenand the youth group in Aqrab / Masyaf– Hama.
They started talking with the youth about the disadvantages of Smart devices while presenting a vvideo talking about the subject and discussing it with them, and then they divided the adolescents into two groups and asked the first group to write positive uses of smart devices and the second group to write the disadvantages based on what appeared to them through the video and the disadvantages mentioned by adolescents likemoving away from reading , isolation and damage of the eye.
Because they are a class of the fabric of this society, and everyone has to accept them and try to integrate them in all aspects of life and services, and within the campaign carried out by the team of the Syrian Society for Social Development in cooperation with the UNHCR, on the occasion of the International Day of Down Syndrome, SSSD(Child Protection Team)held an awareness session on the need to accept children of Down syndrome and the risks of abuse and the need for attention by the family as the first link of protection and that in several aspects (educational, physical, emotional and medical), and was discussed on the main points in the subject through vvideo presentation on the experiences gained some children through their presence in the activities we have, in addition to the tribal and posttestquestionnaire. The activity was held in Home of Family CC in Masyaf- Hama.
During a visit to the Deaf and Blind School in Hama City, many difficulties were discussed in the school's educational process.
One of these difficulties is that blind children are sometimes combusted by winter heaters, and that children in general suffer from winter rains that fill up their classrooms and the hot sun rays in the summer. Within the framework of community initiatives, A team of young people with school staff, have come together to formulate a community initiative aimed at protecting children from the risks they face .
The initiative to protect the deaf and the blind was the manufacture of metal protections and installed in a manner surrounding the heaters, and coloring them in bright colors, in addition to the manufacture of external colored umbrellas works as protectors of the rain in winter and breakers to the sun rays in the summer.
Although it is a relatively short initiative in its duration (one month), but its effects last for all seasons.
Children, parents and teaching staff felt happy, because they would not be afraid of those dangers anymore.
Because of the importance of integrating children with special needs with the normal children in the community center of house of family -Masiaf, the Syrian Society for Social Development, in cooperation with the UNHCR and within the home rehabilitation program, hada merging activity after preparing the children and talk with them about on how to deal with a child with special needs
They had competitions togetherand after that, the children with special needs distributed the balloons tothe children and danced together.