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Ramadan Food Aid

Um Ali, a mother-of-five, was forced to leave her home in Aleppo and flee to Bab Al Salameh camp on the Syrian-Turkish border.

During Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, each day Muslims around the world abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset.

Syrians have a similar ritual but they are fasting in very difficult circumstances. Every year we aim to reach more people in Syria than we reached in the previous year.

Last Ramadan we distributed 30,000 food parcels – an essential service in a country where more than half of the 22 million-strong population has left home in search of safety. Our distributions, including one in Aleppo, have provided a lifeline in communities where crisis or disaster has left people stranded and unable to support themselves and their loved ones.

 

Last year’s Ramadan campaign was the largest since we first started operations in Syria in 2011.

Um Ali, a mother-of-five, was forced to leave her home in Aleppo and flee to Bab Al Salameh camp on the Syrian-Turkish border.

She said: “We spent several days with only a small amount of food. My children were sleeping on empty stomachs. The suffering we felt wasn’t only from hunger but pain, fear and disappointment. But this year Ramadan came filled with rewards and generosity, which put a smile back on my children’s faces. When I have something to cook for my children on a daily basis, it gives us hope to know that people are remembering us and to realise that we are not alone.”