Three new ECHO projects in Syria
Syria-European Union, Politics, 8/25/1999

To support vulnerable groups, ECHO, the humanitarian office of the European Union, has launched three new projects in Syria to assist desert Bedouins and Palestinian refugees.

One project provides assistance to the Bedouins living in the desert through the organization of two mobile clinics, which will ensure basic health care services, including first aid, diagnosis, laboratory testing, vaccination, mother and child services, etc. The project is worth 280,000 euros and will be implemented by the Het Nederlandse Rode Kruis (Netherlands Red Cross), in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.

A second project will focus on the disabled communities living in the Palestinian refugee camps in Hama and Daraa and will aim, respectively, at setting up and improving the functioning of the community rehabilitation centers, in addition to providing impairment aid for the disabled. The project foresees an EC contribution of 320,000 euros and will be implemented by the association Movimondo Molisv.

Under the third ECHO project, assistance will be provided to the Damascus Jafa Hospital of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, to set up a central medical laboratory on its premises. The project, for an amount of 385,000 euros, will be implemented by the association Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP-UK).

ECHO has been present in Syria since 1998, with a number of health and sanitation projects in favor of the Palestine refugees. ECHO was set up in 1992 as a service of the European Commission, to oversee and coordinate EU humanitarian operations in all non-European countries for emergency aid, humanitarian aid, assistance to refugees and long-term rehabilitation efforts.

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