Bringing healthcare right into the community
By Viviane Tou'meh and Penny Sims in Syria When the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Mobile Health Unit arrives in Ghuzlaniyah, ...
Clashes prevent humanitarian aid convoys from reaching people in need
On 27/8/2014 a Syrian Arab Red Crescent humanitarian aid convoy was exposed to mortar shells which hindered the SARC team’s ...
Water provision leads to better humanitarian access in Syria’s most isolated communities
By Viviane Tou'meh, SARC Ahmad Mayen al-Ali is a civil engineer specialising in water provision for the Syrian Arab Red Crescent ...
Drought puts additional strain on families affected by the crisis in Syria
By Vivian Tou'meh, SARC “The drought will place further strain on communities who have already largely exhausted their resources. With low levels ...
Health, water and the increasing threat of disease
By Penny Sims and Vivian Tou’meh, Damascus Sulaf, 15, and her 7-year-old sister Hiba are waiting their turn at the ...
A new environment creates new challenges for psychosocial support specialists
By Penny Sims, IFRC and Vivian Tou’meh, SARC This psychosocial support centre Dweila, Damascus, first opened in 2008 to help ...
140 Volunteers prequalified to provide Psycho-social Support Services in Rural Damascus.
The psychosocial support Department of Rural Damascus' SARC keeps the process of qualifying the volunteers in the fields of psychosocial ...
March 2014
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Following-up visit to the needs of the SARC’s dispensary in Dwailaa
A team of delegates from the Swedish Red Cross, Danish Red Cross and the IFRC’s Health delegate in Syria paid ...
The changes wrought on a Red Crescent branch by an ongoing conflict
By Vivian Tou’meh and Sana Tarabishi, SARC Prior to the conflict in Syria, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) was a very ...