Supporting the flagship project "Casa Sankara" is one of our oldest projects, which we have been supporting since December 2020. This time we were able to help with high-quality sewing machines from Oberwart.
Although there is a Kurdish autonomous government in the Syrian region of Rojava and women are therefore legally equal to men, the old role models still persistently shape society.
Two of our Karawanis passed on their IT expertise to 13 participants from refugee camps in Iraq and opened a learning space.
So much hope in such a short time! Many thanks to all those who, as part of the Caravan of Humanity, have helped to make our aid project in Rojava a success.
In the huge Washokani camp, which has become a new home for more than 16,000 internally displaced persons, there are of course thousands of children. By no means all of them have the opportunity to attend school.
On all our aid missions, it is very important to us to meet people at eye level and to give them hope and joie de vivre through our presence.
Heini Staudinger supported us again this time with his company GEA Waldviertler and donated 1,000 pairs of his high-quality shoes "made in Austria".
Around 16,000 Syrians who have been displaced from their home town live in the huge Washokani refugee camp in north-eastern Syria. Among them are thousands of children.
After a 20-day journey, the time had finally come yesterday: our truck - filled with donations in kind from Austria and Germany - made it across the border to Syria!
With donations amounting to EUR 16,000, we were able to finance a large photovoltaic system with buffer storage for a hospital in the largest city in the Syrian region of Rojava.