Published : 07-10-2022
An activist from Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus, said UNRWA is slated to launch a project to build a youth development centre and a school comprising 24 classrooms.
The project will last for nine months and is expected to be finalized in July 2023.
A few weeks earlier, Damascus Governor Mohamed Tarek Kreishati gave instructions to Damascus authorities to provide the residents of Yarmouk refugee camp with basic services and to rehabilitate the power and water networks.
The governor called for increased cooperation among local departments and CSOs in order to bring life back to normal in the camp.
Sometime earlier, the governor told SHAM FM radio station that the governorate started reconstruction projects in the camp and finalized the rehabilitation of the sewerage network and main water lines.
He said there are currently 1,000 families in Yarmouk Camp, adding that efforts have been underway to solve the bread crisis and rehabilitate the ravaged power network.
The unabated warfare has had disastrous fallouts on Palestinian refugee camps across the Syrian territories. Palestinians who remained in Yarmouk or returned to the camp sometime later have been struggling for survival, in an area where mounds of uncleared rubble continue to block civilians’ access to their homes and property.
Before the crisis started in 2011, Yarmouk was a bustling home to almost 30 percent of the Palestine refugee population in Syria. Today, the weight of displacement, hardship and the loss of loved ones add to the difficult living conditions in Yarmouk.
An activist from Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus, said UNRWA is slated to launch a project to build a youth development centre and a school comprising 24 classrooms.
The project will last for nine months and is expected to be finalized in July 2023.
A few weeks earlier, Damascus Governor Mohamed Tarek Kreishati gave instructions to Damascus authorities to provide the residents of Yarmouk refugee camp with basic services and to rehabilitate the power and water networks.
The governor called for increased cooperation among local departments and CSOs in order to bring life back to normal in the camp.
Sometime earlier, the governor told SHAM FM radio station that the governorate started reconstruction projects in the camp and finalized the rehabilitation of the sewerage network and main water lines.
He said there are currently 1,000 families in Yarmouk Camp, adding that efforts have been underway to solve the bread crisis and rehabilitate the ravaged power network.
The unabated warfare has had disastrous fallouts on Palestinian refugee camps across the Syrian territories. Palestinians who remained in Yarmouk or returned to the camp sometime later have been struggling for survival, in an area where mounds of uncleared rubble continue to block civilians’ access to their homes and property.
Before the crisis started in 2011, Yarmouk was a bustling home to almost 30 percent of the Palestine refugee population in Syria. Today, the weight of displacement, hardship and the loss of loved ones add to the difficult living conditions in Yarmouk.
