Families in northeastern Syria ravaged by poverty … and WFP: 11 million people in need of food in Syria

In a statement issued on Friday 26 June 2020, the World Food Program announced that approximately 9.3 million Syrians are living without food.

The statement confirmed that the number had exceeded one million and 400 thousand people during the past half year.

And Yannis Larque, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva, said that the humanitarian response plan in Syria is implemented by only 30%. Noting that high hopes are based on the upcoming Brussels conference for funding to support the Syrians.

People live in all of Syria, living conditions are very difficult, after the collapse of the Syrian pound to its lowest levels, which was accompanied by the high prices of all requirements of daily life, in light of the low wages of some working groups, including daily-workers whose wages reach two dollars a day.

In Raqqa city in north and east Syria, “Muhammad Ismail” works in construction work, and supports a family of wife and children, who receives a daily wage of five thousand Syrian pounds, or approximately $ 60 a month, and this does not clog the family’s life, especially as work Not continuously and permanently.

While the child, “Jassim Al-Haran”, is forced to work on guarding a building to secure the livelihood of his family’s day with a monthly wage of fifty thousand Syrian pounds, which is equivalent to $ 20, and he tries to support the family and pay the price of his studies.

In Qamishlo / Al Qamishli city, Samir Ghazi is puzzled over how to feed his children in the midst of high prices, and he is a worker who receives a small daily wage.

Anwar Isa, who is displaced from the city of Tal Abyad, lives in Kobani city with seven members of his family, and they depend to provide their food for non-daily work, in addition to the housing wages and the needs of children.

Previous cases, examples of families interviewed by the Aso Network Team, who are living in poor living conditions in cities and towns in northern and eastern Syria, who do not receive any assistance from international organizations concerned with providing them to those in need in Syria.