Project trip of Fr. Dr. Andrzej Halemba, January 2017

Trip to Syria (Aleppo) 2016, January 10,
Children in Jibreen (Jibrein, Jibrin) on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo in Jibreen (Jibrien or Jibrin), industrial area 6 miles from Aleppo where thousands of Syrians were evacuated from the villages of Foua and Kfarya. The director of the Red Crescent in Aleppo said that there are 1400 families accommodated in the old warehouse for cotton. The civilian, mostly children and women suffer from cold weather (often close to O degree), with very little to wear. The Red Crescent provides them with hot meal (rice and noodle cup). In the “restaurant” they can buy some pastry with meat and vegetables. They are provided with drinking water