Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
The US, NATO and its allies are imposing cruel and debilitating sanctions on Syria, crushing its economy and making it next to impossible to purchase medical supplies abroad. A decade ago, the Syrian national health care system – free to all Syrian citizens – was able to meet most of the needs of its people. Today it still tries, but is a shadow of its former self. Furthermore, the US military occupies most of its oil fields and steals their oil, depriving Syria of a source of foreign exchange or even enough fuel for its own needs, which must now be imported from other sanctioned countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela.
In September of 2019, The Syria Solidarity Movement® began a humanitarian aid project where we provide tax-deductible supplies and services to needy Syrians. Our efforts are a drop in the bucket, only $5300 in the last nine months, but they provided sanitary living conditions for a destitute family with two congenitally disabled children, a desperately needed operation for the mother, and a wheelchair battery & charger, along with weekly physiotherapy, for an ambulance driver paralyzed in an attack by terrorists supported and possibly trained by our governments.
Now we want to enable Khaled Murad, a 60-year-old man with a life-threatening heart condition, to receive a heart stent operation. His current income is from the milk provided by their only cow, and what he used to make as an occasional night watchman before his condition worsened. He has three children, the youngest of which is disabled. You might think such surgery is beyond our means, but it needs only $1300 in Syria, due to the shrinking economy and the plunging value of the currency. Please help.
But that’s not all. The coronavirus stranded hundreds of Syrian students on scholarship in Indian schools of higher education. Classes were closed. The schools are covering their food and housing, but their monthly allowances have been suspended, leaving them nothing for other expenses. Most of the students have been able to cope, but a few are so poor that their families can offer them no support. They say they will be able to manage with a total of $960 until classes resume in the fall (hopefully). We hope you will help us to raise that amount.
To support the work of the Syria Solidarity Movement® with your donations, please go to
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/donate-2/
All donations are US tax exempt.
