In cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the team of the Syrian Society for Social Development (SSSD), al-Qamishli, conducted sessions in some Qamishli neighborhoods (Corniche and al-Tai) for women displaced from Ras al-Ain.Sessions started with an introductory activity on SSSD services.

Then the women were given the opportunity to acquaint with each other using the wool ball icebreaker. Displacement and the problems faced by the displaced were also addressed, including the consequences they suffer from, first by choosing emojis that express their current feelings. Activities included identifying women's needs for basic items, such as food, clothing, blankets, female personal hygiene items, baby milk and diapers for their children, medicines and medical supplies for the elderly, etc.

Women's needs for psychological interventions were identified, as some of them are still traumatized by the conditions of war and losses due to hostilities and frequent, successive displacements under shelling and bullets. The women expressed their distress of being totally dependent on host families, as most households received more than three families in one house. The women also suggested that their children go to the community center for emotional relief.

At the end of the activities, each woman wrote down a wish on a star and sticked up it on a cardboard, most wishes being the end of the war and return to their homes.

There has been an intense internal displacement movement to Al Hassakeh City as a result of the Turkish bombardment to the northeast border areas of Syria (Ras Al Ain and the villages attached to it, Tal Tamr, Al Dirbasiyyeh City, the outskirts of Al Malkiyyeh City and the villages attached to it, Ammouda City and the villages attached to it, Al Qamishli, Rural Al Qamishli, Al Qahtaniyyeh and the villages attached to it).

The government has designated around 52 schools as collective shelters to host internally displaced families coming from the above-mentioned areas. Those schools are not fully equipped to host the families.

SSSD team in Al Hassakeh Governorate visited 22 schools to conduct needs assessment. The needs assessments covered the school's capacity to host families, and assessment of the required tools, equipment, and fixtures to transform the schools to temporary collective shelters, which ensure the privacy of the families and individuals staying there and provides protection especially to children and females.

Electricity cables and wires throughout the shelters (including the rooms) were checked up, as well as sanitation facilities (showers, sinks, toilets, taps, privacy) and water equipment (number of water points, water tanks, piping, taps, water mixers, water heaters).

In addition to the necessary equipment/ tools to manage solid waste (garbage containers, trash collection tools)

The most pressing needs were water tanks, drinking water, blankets, mattresses, diapers, milk for infants, housewares, food supplies, clothes for all age groups, detergents, winter heaters, personal hygiene tools, and medications.

SSSD has coordinated efforts with official bodies, namely, Al Mukhtar, Head of the Municipality, the Directorate of Social Affairs and Labor, the Directorate of Education, and other administrative departments throughout the governorate to ensure a comprehensive response.
 

Approximate Number of internally displaced people in Al Hasakah governorate:
Internally displaced families: 37,763
Internally displaced individuals: 185,099

In response to the crisis of transport people from Mabroukeh camp to Arisheh camp, SSSD team implemented recreational activity for children in order to support them psychologically, and
Planted joy in their hearts, as a result of the psychological pressure resulting from their displacement to a new place because of the crisis in Hassakeh city,
The activity included games, songs and entertainment competition