Ahmed Qattan explains the reason for flooding the camps in northern Syria
Dozens of humanitarian organizations and civilian gatherings launched a campaign calling for urgent moves to save camp residents in northern Syria, after hundreds of camps were flooded and damaged, as a result of the torrential rains that fell on the area.
A statement by some media and humanitarian agencies emphasized that, “despite the rainstorms that constantly hit the camps for the displaced, the international community is deaf to hearing the voice of the Syrian people and refusing to help them.”
In an exclusive interview with Fresh Online, Ahmed Kattan, director of early recovery programs at Bunyan organization, said: “The recent flooding of camps is due to the recent displacement and the random positioning of tents in the streams of floods, where more than 300 thousand people have been displaced from Southern Idlib in the north.
Kattan added: “The role of humanitarian organizations is to intervene in the issue of infrastructure, such as rehabilitating waterways, organizing water drainage channels, laying roads, searching for waterways, isolating tents. These are all the interventions that we can provide in some camps in northern Syria.
As for international organizations, Kattan explained, “Unfortunately, what makes the scene repeat every year is the delay in financing infrastructure projects in the early months of the winter season, and the necessary supplies come after the worsening conditions in the camps for the displaced.”
The spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stephane Dujarric, had previously confirmed: “There are reports of more than 1,700 families in northwestern Syria affected by the floods, more than 200 tents destroyed and more than 1,400 tents damaged.”
