Partner: Ghiras Al Nahda

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About the partner

Ghiras Al Nahda

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    The fundraising stage

    The campaign is currently underway. Why not support it yourself and take it closer to its target...

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    Funds raised successfully

    Great news! The campaign reached its target and plans are now being made to put the donations to good use.

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    Project in progress

    The local humanitarian organisation is now using the funds it has raised to provide crucial on-the-ground support to local communities.

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    Another successful project

    Thanks! Your kind support has helped this local humanitarian organisation to reduce suffering and save lives in a war-torn community.

Status of Campaign: Project in Progress

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    Project in Progress

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    Project Successful

Give Health, Give Life

Thousands of Syrians are living in camps where they lack even the most basic personal care and household items. Please contribute to our campaign to help families avoid deadly diseases and live with dignity.  #GiveHealthGiveLife

  • goal of

    £38,516

  • Expired on

    11/01/2019

funds raised

A few generous CanDoers have agreed to fund an amazing HALF of this campaign if the CanDo community can raise the rest. It's all or nothing crowdfunding so help us get to 100%.

    • 100%

    • (£-19 remaining)

Yes! We did it! Thank you.

for the community of

Syria

Story

We are Ghiras Al Nahda - a non-government, non-profit organisation working inside Syria and Turkey.

People in our communities have been suffering constantly for the last seven years.

They have been forced out of their beloved homes and lands where their childhood memories were made. They are living in camps with thousands of others, where they lack even the most basic personal care and household items.

One of our volunteers, Ahmad, visits camps in the Al Mara district. He told us how he met Sara, who was washing clothes for her brothers in a bowl with dirty water and no washing liquid. The water was freezing, so Sara’s little hands had become cracked and sore. She told Ahmad about the things she had left behind at home when she fled with her family - her pink bed, toys, a comb, a mirror. Her eyes filled with tears as she remembered her friends and the fun they used to have playing together.

Sara now lives in a tent without even the most basic amenities. She wakes up in the night to her brothers crying. They are infected with lice and have scabies - the continuous scratching causes bleeding.

Every morning, Sara and her brothers wash their hair and clothes with water, hoping that this will ease their suffering. Sara and her brothers are not alone; almost 2,500 children are living in these camps under dangerous conditions and need our help.

Our urgent campaign will provide 814 families with clean living kits to help them avoid deadly diseases and live with dignity. The kits include household and personal items, as well as information and guidance on preventative health measures. We don’t have access to any other funding, so you are our only option for securing what we need to help children like Sara.

Sara and the other children are waiting for your donation. Please help them.

#GiveHealthGiveLife

Our budget

 

£30,004.04

Supplies, commodities and materials
 

£988.00

General operating and other direct costs
 

£1,772.85

Partner core costs
 

£4,465.00

Staff and other personnel costs
 

£828.95

Transfer fees to Syria

 

£456.71

UK bank charges

 

£38,515.55

Total Campaign Amount

Updates

29/05/2020

09/08/2019

Dear wonderful CanDoers. We

Dear wonderful CanDoers. We are pleased to let you know that despite the challenges, we successfully completed the Give Health Give Life project that you generously supported, and have provided an update on the impact this project has had. Check our impact page (next to Story and Updates) to read more about the people you helped us to give back dignity and safety to. Thank you again for your support of this important work. The team at Ghiras Al Nahda

15/04/2019

We’re at the final stage!

Hi - how lovely! We have just finished distributing the final kits. It brings us all such joy and pleasure to watch the children discover what is inside the baskets. One boy told us “this toothbrush will be my mothers, this is mine - my brother prefers red and my sister prefers yellow. I will brush my teeth every morning and before sleep”. Thank you to everyone who contributed to their happiness and their health

14/03/2019

A surprise from the children of the camp for all followers

The team and the children formed the campaign name using the contents of the hygiene kit They send you all the love ❤

11/03/2019

Our team arrived in the camps

Our team arrived in the camps and began distributing the baskets We were very happy when we saw the joy of the kids holding the toothbrush and laughing with broad smiles (:

04/03/2019

4-3-2019

Hello, Great Candoers, We and our team are very happy because we will provide a range of hygiene kits for families in the camp. 814 baskets are prepared and will be moved to the warehouse in the coming days

23/11/2018

We're getting started!

We've just reach the first five donations. Can we count with your help?

22/11/2018

Campaign Started

Comments

Comments

Zen
Fri, 09/08/2019 - 13:51

Dear wonderful CanDoers. We are pleased to let you know that despite the challenges, we successfully completed the Give Health Give Life project that you generously supported, and have provided an update on the impact this project has had. Check our impact page (next to Story and Updates) to read more about the people you helped us to give back dignity and safety to. Thank you again for your support of this important work.
The team at Ghiras Al Nahda

Zen
Mon, 15/04/2019 - 08:18

Hi - how lovely!
We have just finished distributing the final kits.
It brings us all such joy and pleasure to watch the children discover what is inside the baskets.

One boy told us “this toothbrush will be my mothers, this is mine - my brother prefers red and my sister prefers yellow. I will brush my teeth every morning and before sleep”.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to their happiness and their health

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Christy
Wed, 10/04/2019 - 10:06
Well done for all you've achieved!
Zen
Thu, 14/03/2019 - 08:05

The team and the children formed the campaign name using the contents of the hygiene kit
They send you all the love ❤

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Dina Khalifa Prior
Tue, 19/03/2019 - 09:29

Wonderful! Keep up the good work! X

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Christy
Wed, 20/03/2019 - 14:29
This brought a tear to my eye. So great to see <3
Zen
Mon, 11/03/2019 - 14:46

Our team arrived in the camps and began distributing the baskets
We were very happy when we saw the joy of the kids holding the toothbrush and laughing with broad smiles (:

Zen
Mon, 04/03/2019 - 13:30

Hello, Great Candoers,
We and our team are very happy because we will provide a range of hygiene kits for families in the camp. 814 baskets are prepared and will be moved to the warehouse in the coming days

Heba Alhaji
Fri, 04/01/2019 - 16:11

Wooow, wonderful!
We will start soon supporting our kids in camps with the dignity kits!
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you ❤❤

Heba Alhaji
Tue, 25/12/2018 - 08:41

Dear candoers

Merry Christmas!
What amazing your efforts are! Our campaign increased rapidly because of you! We need only 18% to hit the target!
Many thanks for you from our children in the camps and our volunteers.

Heba Alhaji
Wed, 28/11/2018 - 13:10

Hello Great Candoers,

We are really grateful to your support. Now, we started the second week where our friends and supporters are working hard with us to achieve the target. We have reached 51% and will continue with your support till we hit 100%. Your support could be the difference as we’ve only got five weeks to get to that all-important 100% - we can’t wait to see what you and the rest of the community can do!

Heba Alhaji
Wed, 28/11/2018 - 13:06

Hello Great Candoers,

We are really grateful to your support. Now, we started the second week where our friends and supporters are working hard with us to achieve the target. We have reached 51% and will continue with your support till we hit 100%. Your support could be the difference as we’ve only got five weeks to get to that all-important 100% - we can’t wait to see what you and the rest of the community can do!

CanDoers

59 CanDoers from 11 countries
are supporting this campaign

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  • 39 new candoers

    CanDoers that had never supported a project on CanDo before

  • 20 recorrent candoers

    Candoers that had supported a project on CanDo before

  • 2 anonymous candoers

    CanDoers that didn’t wanted to be identified... masked heroes.

Top countries supporting this campaign

Country Supporters
N/A 40 CanDoers
United Kingdom 5 CanDoers
United States 4 CanDoers
Spain 2 CanDoers
United Arab Emirates 2 CanDoers
Canada 1 CanDoer
Greece 1 CanDoer
Italy 1 CanDoer
Lebanon 1 CanDoer
Malta 1 CanDoer
Portugal 1 CanDoer
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Impact

In rural Ma'rat al-Nu'man (Syria) where 5,000 people are estimated to have arrived and are now living in makeshift camps with little to no access to clean water or basic hygiene items, they are at increased risk of communicable diseases such as acute diarrhoea, dysentery, scabies, relapsing fever and Typhoid.

In rural Ma'rat al-Nu'man (Syria) where 5,000 people are estimated to have arrived and are now living in makeshift camps with little to no access to clean water or basic hygiene items, they are at increased risk of communicable diseases such as acute diarrhoea, dysentery, scabies, relapsing fever and Typhoid.

Campaign Aims

 

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To provide the most vulnerable families with comprehensive clean living kits to help them avoid deadly diseases and live with dignity. These families were identified through a special criteria and the community was consulted and involved in their selection. They included those with orphans and vulnerable children, pregnant and lactating women, older people and those with disabilities.

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To disseminate information and guidance sessions along with these kits on preventative health measures.

 

The Impact By Numbers

 

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814
Families
Reached

 

The Impact By Numbers

 

814
Families
Reached

814 families provided with kits, a huge 4,177 people benefitted in total

63
Orphans
Helped

63 orphans living without parental guidance given kits as well as hygiene education and support

£9
Per
Person

£9 per person was all it took to give so many people back some dignity and health

63
Orphans
Helped

£9
Per
Person

The project's impact in just one story...

 

These kits didn’t just include specialist items like sulphur soap to prevent scabies and lice shampoo but also many items that most people simply take for granted, but return dignity and independence to people. “This toothbrush will be my mothers, this is mine - my brother prefers red and my sister prefers yellow. I will brush my teeth every morning and before sleep” says one smiling little boy before he sets about laying out the contents of his family’s kit with his friends to spell out some words …’

The project's impact in just one story...

These kits didn’t just include specialist items like sulphur soap to prevent scabies and lice shampoo but also many items that most people simply take for granted, but return dignity and independence to people. “This toothbrush will be my mothers, this is mine - my brother prefers red and my sister prefers yellow. I will brush my teeth every morning and before sleep” says one smiling little boy before he sets about laying out the contents of his family’s kit with his friends to spell out some words …’

 

Some Key Wins

 

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The heartwarming photo that young residents of the camp composed to say thank you to Ghiras Al Nadha and to all you wonderful CanDoers.

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Following up with camp residents a month later to collect data and responses helped in building trust and relationships as well as in better understanding of everyone’s specific needs.

 

 

 

Campaign Outcome: Success!

 

59 CanDoers from 11 countries raised a massive £38,516 to help hundreds of families retain their dignity and independence, and keep them healthy.

Campaign Outcome: Success!

59 CanDoers from 11 countries raised a massive £38,516 to help hundreds of families retain their dignity and independence, and keep them healthy.

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