Jafra Foundation Project Donation Request

Jafra Foundation Project Donation Request

We have received a request from the CWU Tyne & Wear Clerical Branch to circulate a donation appeal received by the Northern Region TUC from the Jafra Foundation Project. 
The Jafra Foundation for Relief and Youth Development is a Syrian-based NGO with offices in Yarmouk refugee camp. It works to ease the human suffering in cases of emergency, crises and disastrous situations, as well as to improve the living conditions prevailing in the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, by involving young people in the development process.  
The Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus, was built in 1957 to shelter Palestinians who had fled the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Before the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War the camp housed the largest Palestinian refugee community in Syria, with over 150,000 registered refugees. There are now fewer than 18,000 refuges still in Yarmouk. 
The camp has been under siege since 2012 and in April 2015 the Islamic State/ISIL/ Daesh was able to gain control of a large amount of the camp, leaving the remaining civilians in a desperate situation. 
Jafra will bring to Yarmouk camp food, hygiene kits, aqua tabs, education materials and medicine. The Jafra team needs support to carry out this operation and to keep up the flow of relief materials to the camp.
Branches wishing to donate can do so by contacting Melanie Lowden (PA to the Regional Secretary of the Northern TUC) at mlowden@tuc.org.uk

    

Any enquiries on this LTB should be forwarded to the General Secretary’s Office gsoffice@cwu.org, quoting reference GS16.0 /LTB 323/15
Yours sincerely,

W HAYES

General Secretary