نحن الأبطال الخارقين - We Are Superheroes

 

To rebuild the human in Aleppo

by doing our best

Since the liberation the situation in the city center is better but the armed groups are only at 4Km and keep bombing 35% of the city. Since I arrived I had to take care of several people who get injured by a rocket and a mortar nearby me, I could save only 3 on 5 because of a lack of help. Most of the people don’t dare to help injured people after attacks because of the risks (another mortar for example) but finally most of the people want’s to help, but don’t know what to do and how. They feel powerless and the impact on their personal psychology is worse. Teaching these skills would give more power and reflex for people to react to these situations . We could save 20 to 25 % of « standby » lives. By sensibilisation of people about first aid actions, reflex, exemple: with personnel outlets like belt, stopping hemorrhagic before to send a victim in a car to save his blood during transportation. Asking in advance his blood category before he passed out and put it in his face to save time in hospital. (...)

• +30 Training for youth and adults to empower their reactions - self-confidence and save lives. (scouts, schools and individuals in their homes, particularly in bombed areas.)

• Health courses precautions in few families to prevent complications

• Distribution of medical supplies (first aid kit) in different complicated areas of Aleppo.

• Project of Micro-first aid kit for children and families

• Specific medecine importation

Initially I’m a professional rescuerfrom the civil protection in Paris but the situations here ask for immediate reactions out of any protocol. This is why I created this project after assisting during few attacks. I don’t want to publish picture of dead people or very injured but anybody need to understand what does it mean. Here few links:

About this picture - Parc Attacks - Refugee camp - Bullets - School bombing

300 to 500 places every month. We used to receive a lot of rockets around but we maintained it. To allow young people of all ages and families an access to cinema is to open a window on the world to them, to allow them to see that life is not limited to war, opens their heart, travels, Identify themselves with their heroes, regain confidence and breath a little. It is an important program from the moment we makes sens about and where young people learn lessons. For kids you know, you can show them a film and teach them elementary lessons that even in 6 months of workshops, classes you could not make them get in the head and inspire them. Around than 4 500 invited until now.

Even if they try to hide it, the war has been really invasive for any people and for the youth especially, it means 2 wars for them, one about the war itself and the other one about their youth problems at their age also. I plan, if my means and energy allow it, to build a more complet program with a dedicated space for that.

• The program is in a school called Amal (Monday, Thursday, Friday) 4 classrooms every week (120 children from 14 to 17) to help them to empower their self confidence, to believe in tomorrow and to solve psychological - personal questions though specific activities and workshop in class. Because I can spend more time with them and getting close, I used this opportunity to bring more activities and purposes for the school and the students.

• There are 47 children who asked for individual help, I organize individual meetings (2 to 4 per week) and will soon organize little group discussions about problem they share.

• This project include 3 micro-social projects and meetings to help different groups of youth to manage to know better about the others, help and know about themselves.

• Initially it’s the program to collect and share Syrians stories to give a voices to people here and sensibilize western countries on the reality on the ground (around 90 testimonies). If you look at foreign media, about WEST ALEPPO  before the liberation, we show you the ruins, black flags floating in all the streets, collapsed buildings, missiles illuminating the sky ... death, but we didn’t show the hundreds of thousands of people for whom life continues here despite the war with courage and resilience, tens of thousands of children who go to school every day, hundreds of shops still open ... no. Aleppo is the face of the war in Syria, everybody are talking about Syria outside but finally for the wrong reasons, and everybody have forgotten those who are living there. Making sens about what's really happening in Aleppo, the life, the stories, the reality,
• Another project connected is the connection between schools around the world and schools in Syria. 

In Aleppo and Syria the war circumstances make it complicated if you want to help, both because everybody is tired and because it’s hard to join organisations in term of available 8 time or access. After emotional support and training we help people who want to make a difference to create their class or activities. We try to make it easy and genuine, we encourage people to teach what they love the most even if they didn’t study it and to engage themselves at little minimum of 4 hours a month as a first step, because no excuses, everybody has 4 hours a month to give to help. It’s all about collective intelligence, to work together, to learn from each other, to join our networks and each one of us to make little efforts to make a difference and to empower people through a sort of « out of the box » philosophy of social work.

A shelter initiative opened in 2017 dedicated to sensibilisation and treating stray injured animals to give them a second chance by adoption. We started the initiative more than a year ago by taking care of injured animals, financing the food for the animals and owners who struggle to feed them with the economic situation in different neighborhoods but also the medicines to treat the animals. Now since half a year we have our own shelter. We have a collaborative team of 10 volunteers (including a veterinary who help the project in terme of care) dedicated to signal the animals in need, carry them and follow - feed them.

They are or used or forgotten - they need to be empowered

There are different groups of children in the street - or selling biscuits, gums etc. or begging for money, they come or from mafia networks or from families really poor or doesn’t have parents anymore (dead, displaced in terrorist areas, fighters ...) whatever their situation is, this os not their fault and it’s really important to give them a hand before they get totally marginalized from the « normal » society. The program is simple:

• We collect infirmations about children in the street and we choose « classes »

• The classes are 2 to 3 time a month.

• They are offered 500 SYP, a sandwich and sweets for every session of 1H30

It's difficult to manage to create projects in these conditions, especially since most of them were on my own money, security, etc. Hopefully I've friends and volunteers to help me there and we've been trying to make little projects to show love, cohesion. To simply care in the best way possible, in the best way we could.

Construction of vegetable gardens in refugee areas (Hanano designation of other places which can be chosen in case of Jabreen wont work) and training of families, children to plant vegetables and take care of them. People are dependent on the help from associations, empowering people, rebuilding the human is essential. Not only is it essential to the mentality of families but especially to the children, to help them to rebuild themselves in a healthy way, by example and by learning how to "DO" rather than "RECEIVE" It is a true playground, long-term project development opportunities to enrich these areas, activities and above all help people to overcome war otherwise, to strengthen cohesion, "reconciliation". A long-term project, but above all with a long-term impact at different levels, especially: education, psychology, environment, nutrition.

Realisation Team: Doctor Lana Al Amin (nutritional program) / Fateh Sabbah (specialist agronomist) / Nour Sawas / Rania Hillal / Emil Azar.

To realize the dreams of sick children and / or very handicapped by war wounds with associations and the University Hospital Cancer department for Sick Children. Monthly workshops with selected children depending on the severity of their case to find out what they want to do with their lives, help them to figure out what their dream is. We know that these children will not have the same lifespan as a normal child. Also the war, the economic situation even prevents them from receiving preferential treatment as a sick child as we can in Europe or Parents bet all they have on them, aware of the limited time of their children's lives. Here, unfortunately, with war, even healthy young people do not have much hope or opportunity. Mobilization of internal and international actors to sponsor children according to their dreams and mobilization of youth as volunteers, to sensibilise them on the situation of these complicated childhood.