Our commitment to the people affected by the conflict in the Kurdish-majority region of Syria continues. On the morning of 1 November, we delivered a shipment of paediatric medicines for 30,000 people, which will be distributed to the Kurdish Red Crescent clinics we work with.
On 1 November, we again crossed the bridge separating Iraqi Kurdistan from the Kurdish-majority region of Syria, Rojava. The aim was to deliver a new humanitarian cargo, this time consisting of medicines - mostly paediatric - for 30,000 people, which will be distributed to the Kurdish Red Crescent clinics we have been supporting for some time, and with whom we will be working for the next 7 months as part of a larger support programme.
After sending three humanitarian shipments during 2015 and one in September 2016, this distribution of medicines was the first one carried out this year as part of a project financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), and which we are implementing with the support of the Otto per Mille Office of the Waldensian Board and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano.
The distributions will continue in 2017, and in total, aid will be delivered to 50,000 people and access to care guaranteed for 75,000 displaced persons.
Over the next seven months, internally displaced persons, Syrian and Iraqi refugees will be able to rely on the psycho-social support services we will provide in the Red Crescent Centres, where we will hold training sessions on resilience techniques and psycho-social support attended by 200 Red Crescent workers.
