By Giacomo | Project Leader
For Syrian families normality no longer exists, they have no electricity, nor water. They live in the dark in hunger, with no light in sight.
Imagine you have only 3 hours a day to: do your laundry, recharge your phone, turn on the refrigerator, heat your house or any other ordinary activity that needs electrical supply... This is what a family in Syria expereiences everyday after eleven years of war. For this reason families where forced to reorganize their lives according to the three hours of power supply.
Those who can afford it use power generators to compensate and gain a few hours more of light, but due to economic sanctions, Covid emergency, the unending war in the country and new arising conflicts in the world such as the war in Ukraine, most of the families cannot afford fuel anymore.
At the beginning Pro Terra Sancta started by helping families with economic support to buy fuel for electricity and heating, but with the rising of the need we started working on a more sustainable and durable project with a longer term impact.
For this reason we have given life to the project "A light for Syria", which plans to equip families of a system with two solar panels, so as to guarantee a constant supply of free electricity and hot water. The solar panels for the systems, one photovoltaic and the other thermal, will all be purchased by companies in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, in order to support the
local communities.
The project will initially involve 100 families from Aleppo, which we have identified by giving priority to those for which the intervention is most urgent - in particular families with small children and elderly or sick people in the house - and who have passed the roof stability test. A system for each family has a total cost of 2,000 euros.
Please join us in this new phase of the project, even a small contribution is important to reach our goal! And please share this with as many people as you can!
Thank you for what you may be able to do for Syrian families,
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