COVID-19, A New War in Syria
<p><strong>What is this campaign about?</strong><br />
‘COVID-19, A New War in Syria’, a campaign to provide sanitary packs and visual information guides to combat COVID-19 in refugee camps in Syria.<br />
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<strong>What We ask?</strong><br />
We are urgently looking for financial donations and designers to make visual materials.<br />
<strong>How are we going to use donations?</strong><br />
We will use the donations to help Syrian Child Protection Network (Hurras) for essential supplies of soap and sanitary packs in Syria. Every donation will save lives,<br />
We are making sanitary packs containing posters and leaflets that promote good hygiene and distribute them to 10000 kids and more (Thanks to your donations).</p>
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<strong>Who we are:</strong><br />
Poster for tomorrow is an independent, non-profit organisation based in Paris.<br />
Our goal is to encourage people, both in and outside the design community, to make posters to stimulate debate on issues that affect us all. Founded in 2009, during our previous 10 poster competitions we have received over 39,000 posters from 165 countries and hosted more than 1000 exhibitions in 5 continents. We use graphic design to promote human rights values through workshops, debate and conferences.<br />
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<strong>How did the project start?</strong><br />
We have been in contact with Syrian Child Protection Network (Hurras), a local based NGO working in Syria since 2012. They provide protection to Syrian children, the people most affected by the war.</p>
<p>As the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, Syrians brace for yet another disaster on top of the devastation caused by nine years of war. Idlib is currently the area most affected by the conflict. Daily bombing and shelling have displaced almost one million people from their homes in the space of just a few months. Currently there are approximately 189,000 displaced children in north-west Syria, of which 62,000 live in refugee camps and temporary shelters. The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unexpected, additional threat to the already extremely fragile lives of many Syrian families.<br />
Based on global transmission rates, the Early Warning and Alert Response Network (EWARN) predicts that between 40 and 70% of the population in north-west Syria could become infected with COVID-19 – between 1.6 and 2.8 million people. But given the situation in Idlib, it’s impossible for people to combat the virus in the normal ways: how do you self-isolate in a crowded refugee camp? How do you wash your hands if there’s no soap? And how can get you get treated if the healthcare system is broken? Because since December 2019 more than 84 hospitals and medical facilities in north-west Syria have been damaged, destroyed, or forced to close their doors due to violence or mass shortages.</p>
<p>In these circumstances the only possible way to combat COVID-19 in Syria is to educate refugees on good hygiene and isolation practice in the hope of slowing down and ward off contagion.</p>
<p><strong>We are working to send essential sanitary packs to Idlib which contain soaps, towels, leaflet and a poster that promote good hygiene – but we need your help to do this.</strong></p>
<p><strong>How you can help?<br />
Buy sanitary packs for Idlib. </strong>These essential supplies will include soaps, towels and an illustrated information guide.</p>
<p><strong>With your help we hope to create 10000 kits or more.</strong></p>
<p>This KissKissBankBank account is open to receive donations for essential supplies of soap and sanitary packs in Syria.<br />
<strong>Every donation will save lives, so please give what you can.</strong></p>
<p>If you are a professional designer, you can also use you talent! We need artists, illustrators and designers!<br />
Send us an email and join us.</p>
<p><strong>How are we going to use donations?</strong><br />
We will use the donations for essential supplies of soap and sanitary packs in Syria. Every donation will save lives, We will use artists and designers contibutions to design sanitary packs containing soaps, towel, poster and leaflet that promote good hygiene. Printing process of these posters and leaflet will be done in Turkey and Syria. Our local team will follow up different steps of the production and help Hurras Network.</p>
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