There has been a lot of talk in the press around how helping a few, a few hundred, or a few thousand will not solve this crisis and this is true. But if you're that one family who gets the medical attention, the education for their child or the secure housing it will mean the world.
Even though we don't work in the area and cannot do anything to help we have desperate people contacting us on a regular basis. They have fled their homes, lost their livelihoods and are seeing their children's futures put at risk.
Some of the enquiries we have received have included:
- A woman alone with four children. Their father is studying for his PhD in the UK
- A lady working in the UK who's family are in a refugee camp
- A Syrian father and torture victim struggling with his family reunion claim and fearing for his family's lives in the interim
- A Syrian father who has been granted indefinite leave to remain and cannot afford the visa and solicitors to bring his family here
- A family who's in laws are living in temporary accommodation in Egypt
- A family in Lebanon who cannot afford the costs of their temporary accommodation
- A man with 6 family members in Lebanon living in difficult conditions. The family includes a four month old baby, a three year old and a pregnant lady
- A family in Damascus who cannot access medical care for their child with a mother with health problems. The father told me they did not eat yesterday
We are a tiny charity and sadly have no options to offer them and can only give our sympathy.
The overwhelming message from Syrians is that the international community is ignoring their crisis. The UK taking any number of refugees would demonstrate we are not ignorant to their plight.
Please act now
