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Providing Cardiac Medical Care to poor and IDP patients in Homs Al Afia Charity Fund is one of the main NGOs in Homs governorate. It provides health operation services by referring cases to Al Shawi private hospital and Al Birr hospital in Al-Waer HTR area that belong to (Al Birr social services and Al Afia Charity Fund). These hospitals were especially prepared for this project services, to get the needed treatment and cover the costs. Doctors or other associations refer Patients to the NGO, where they go through a committee to check the eligibility of the patient to access the services.

This committee is not medical it is for Social Survey. It studies the patient social situation, number of children, monthly income, residence ,and number of productive members to insure that the patient is in need and deserves the association help while the medical opinion comes from the doctor or the hospital that receives the patient.

Although the committee isn't medical it studies the feedback given by the patients .It looks into the doctors medical history, and it monitors the patients development after the surgery. Even though  there isn't  a wide range of doctors to choose from in Homs.  

The patient should provide a medical report explaining his/her situation. When the patient is eligible for having the cardiac catheterization diagnoses or surgeries the NGO refers him/her to Al Shawi new hospital.
There is a follow up committee to Keep track of the patient's condition in the hospital, and make sure of the surgery.   
Al Afia Fund Charity covers all needed referrals from the city and rural areas and accepts all Syrians patients coming from other governorate.
Al Afia Fund Charity Sponsors ambulatory injuries received by Homs' hospitals and from hot spots around it.
AFIA is the only specialized NGO exclusively in health services in Homs governorate and plays a major role in the coordination between National NGOs in the governorate, while other NGOs only provide health services temporarily ( in case of funding )
Provision of medical care to poor and IDP patients in Homs Homs governorate is experiencing severe health challenges under the current deteriorated situation in Syria.  Secondary and Tertiary health care as well as the first Aid and trauma management care  services  are almost unavailable and access to medicines and hospital care for IDPs and the residents in certain areas in Homs city is steadily decreasing.
This project will provide medical care to the poor and IDPs in Homs, and Primary Health Care to people in Hard to Reach and Besieged Areas. The project will target patients in need for hospitalization and tertiary care of which , most of them are from most vulnerable groups (IDPs, women) who can’t afford the cost of surgeries and treatment, and it will fill the gap of shortage of public hospitals in Homs.
The project will support the following categories:
	Hosting communities in Homs City (30% of supported beneficiaries)
	IDPs in Homs City (50% of supported beneficiaries)
	Injuries and PIN who are located in HTR and Besieged areas (20% of supported beneficiaries)
Activities will include provision of the following lifesaving services:
1-	Casks stay and treatment for 250 infants
2-	Accommodation at hospitals for 750 patients.
3-	General surgeries for 515 patients. (Mostly for those who injured during the current crisis and considered part of lifesaving surgeries).
4-	Orthopedic surgeries for 300 patients.
5-	Neurologic surgeries for 100 patients. 
The total number of the patients is 1915 as following: 515 general operations, 300 Orthopedic operations 100 neurological operations, 750 hospital accommodation and 250 casks.
Flour against Hunger As a result of the Syria crisis, the overall Al-Hasakah governorate suffered extensive damages, especially in the western and southern regions where they have become a battle field.  These regions have been freed lately and been fairly stable and safe.  That in turn, encouraged thousands of families to stay in or return to these areas.  However, the catastrophic events that happened in these country-side regions during the crisis have a negative and a life threatening impact on these communities.  

Some of these main negative impacts are:
	Loss of source of income, such as livestock and agricultural assets, properties, and equipment.
	People in these areas spread over a large geographical area width more than 100 km. Public transportation is not available anymore to reach the nearby towns and cities, which prevents from acquiring their basic needs of the daily bread.
	Most people in these areas are displaced and returnees.

The culture in these local communities, is that the women bake homemade bread as needed and use the cattle and agricultural remnants like animal dung, firewood, and straw as domestic fuel for baking and cooking.  To allow these communities to strive, it will require a serious and emergency intervention to provide them with these basic needs.

The Al-Wasel project, "Flour Against Hunger",  is designed to provide baking flour to the distal countryside communities of Al-Hasakah, which are too far from the public bakeries and other necessary needs.  In addition, the project is also designed to train housewives to bake bread by themselves, because of the difficult access to those town and city centers due to the security and transportation restrictions.

This project, naturally, will target women and children as they are the vital members of any family. 

The Al-Wasel Charity over the last year has provided various  possible aids for these areas and for their displaced and returning people.  The aid services provided were in various forms such as food distribution, medical assistance, and WASH. In addition, carrying the successful campaigns, such as the Protection of children and the "Back to School", The Al-Wasel Charity had gained rich insight and a full perception of the situation, the needs, and the living conditions of this suffering area.  

All determined areas will be thoroughly researched and surveyed.   Al-Wasel Charity will be focused on the highest priority livelihood according to the criteria of selection. The baking flour, and iron sheets will be provided monthly for each family for 5 consecutive months starting in Febriuary.  Because these essential materials are not available for them at the present time due to loss of their agricultural crops, especially wheat crop, which they used to use it for their daily required nutrition.  The intervention of the Al-Wasel Charity will be considered a life-saving and a life-sustaining effort until the harvest season in the Sixth month (Feb) of this year comes.
Purchase and distribution of sheep to the families in al-hassakh The project aims at improving the food security and nutrition status of the most vulnerable households in the country side by promoting milk and dairy production. The main objective is to enhance availability and access to nutrients and fresh rich foods by contributing to milk and dairy production of chronically poor farmers (Returnees, IDPs and highly affected families) and women-headed households, in particular. NGO's intervention will help the affected families including women and children to start their own food production using the house yard in in the countryside   ,  East side of Hasakeh and  al-aresha and al-shaddadi  in Hasakeh governorate thus reducing their reliance on direct food aid.
Increased availability of food will increase dietary energy intake and reduce under nutrition in the targeted families especially children and women.

Alber Wa Alihsan is proposing to support  families with the provision of 3 dairy sheep feed to produce their own food on their backyard.
The project has very high impact on families’ food security and nutrition situation.
The impact of the project is almost immediate, as sheep would start producing milk after distribution. The productive period far exceeds the timeframe of the project. Moreover new lambs can be increasing the sheep's herd.

These processes help and encourage families to develop their livelihoods according to the breed in and growing of sheep.
The NGO is responsible of monitoring and follow-up the process even after the distribution and provision.
Purchase and distribution of sheep to the families in need in Hassakeh The project aims at improving the food security and nutrition status of the most vulnerable households in the country side by promoting milk and dairy production. The main objective is to enhance availability and access to nutrients and fresh rich foods by contributing to milk and dairy production of chronically poor farmers (Returnees, IDPs and highly affected families) and women-headed households, in particular. NGO's intervention will help the affected families including women and children to start their own food production using the house yard in in the countryside of Ras Alain,  west side of Hasakeh and Dirbasyeh in Hasakeh governorate thus reducing their reliance on direct food aid.
Increased availability of food will increase dietary energy intake and reduce under nutrition in the targeted families especially children and women.

Alber Wa Alihsan is proposing to support 660 families with the provision of 3 dairy sheep and 75 kg of sheep feed to produce their own food on their backyard.
The project has very high impact on families’ food security and nutrition situation.
The impact of the project is almost immediate, as sheep would start producing milk after distribution. The productive period far exceeds the timeframe of the project. Moreover new lambs can be increasing the sheep's herd.

These processes help and encourage families to develop their livelihoods according to the breed in and growing of sheep.
The NGO is responsible of monitoring and follow-up the process even after the distribution and provision.
Rehabilitation of houses and apartments in Homs city The increased standards of living in Homs forced people to return to their damaged houses and apartments in Homs city. In order to return, they try to fix what can be fixed in the current difficult situation in the whole country. However, they need more things to do and that is what Inshaat Association is trying to offer. In the first project, the Association helped in rehabilitating 200 houses in Homs but more help is needed with the continuous demand for returning. In this project 350 houses and apartments are targeted to be rehabilitated
Scaling up Infant Young Child Feeding and preventative nutrition services for vulnerable children and pregnant lactating mothers. Although the level of acute and chronic malnutrition among under five boys and girls in the assessed locations in Syria is found to be within acceptable levels, with a Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) at 3 per cent and chronic malnutrition (stunting) at 12.7 per cent, Poor levels of GAM were however recorded at 7.8 per cent among women in child bearing age (CBA), which is much higher than the under-five GAM levels according to the SMART conducted in 11 out of the 14 governorates in 2015/16. Similar result (2.9%) was established by a rapid SMART survey conducted during 2016 in parts of Homs through cross-border partners which is also considered acceptable based on WHO classification of acute malnutrition.  Anemia is prevalent and at a serious level among both children under five and women (CBA) with a prevalence of 25.9 per cent and 24.5 per cent respectively. This result alerted nutrition partners to the possibility of other serious levels of micronutrient deficiencies beyond anemia among children and women. Despite low levels of acute malnutrition reported, many aggravating factors prevail, including sub-optimum infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, existing food insecurity, deteriorating livelihood options, population displacement contributing to a high prevalence of diarrhea and other childhood diseases. These additional elements can influence the nutrition situation negatively, especially in the context of worsening healthcare and service coverage, particularly in inaccessible besieged and hard-to-reach locations.

In light of the limited information, problematic access to food, high food prices, diminishing employment opportunities and low service coverage in the besieged and hard-to-reach areas, nutrition partners are forecasting more undernutrition cases within besieged and hard-to-reach locations, thus all besieged and hard-to-reach areas were ranked by the sector as critical.
The whole of Syria nutrition sector estimated that 4.3 million boys and girls aged 6-59 months and PLW are in need of preventive and curative nutrition services in 2017. Of these, estimated 73,000 children aged 6-59 months are acutely malnourished, 730,000 children suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, 2.8 million children under 2 years of age require optimal feeding to ensure adequate nutrition status, and 1.5 million PLW require preventive nutrition services against under-nutrition and for optimal nutrition wellbeing. 

Scale-up of on-going preventative and curative nutrition services is therefore required with different levels of urgency as informed by the sector severity ranking, with an emphasis on serving hard-to-reach and besieged areas where data on the nutrition situation is not available .
The project aims to address the micronutrient deficiencies among children under five in Aleppo, Al- Hassakeh, Dar'a, Lattakia, and Rural Damascus  according to the 2017 nutrition sector severity ranking. The activities carried out will be addressing micronutrient deficiencies among children under five.
Improved Water Supply for 45,000 returnees,IDP  host populations through well rehabilitation and sewage station re- equipping  in AL-Hussainiyah, Bahdaliya Al -Deiyabiah (Rural Damascus and Rural Qunaitrah  ). Hussainiyah is a southern suburb of Rural  Damascus, The town is inhabited by returnees, IDPs ,Palestine refugees and  resident community.  where sustained humanitarian aid  has not been delivered due to access problems 
Beside many other basic needs, there is an emergency to improve the present WASH conditions: presently, there are severe supply shortfalls and appalling environmental hygiene conditions.  HELP proposes to rehabilitate 4 abandoned wells in Hussainiyah, and provide equipment for sewage evacuation plus a sewage conveyor line to an intermediate discharge facility. 
The project activities addressing the most urgent needs of the beneficiaries 
Activity 1 : 
The 4 targeted wells (MOWR denomination ‘Hussainiyah No(.4,5,6,7’)  are presently not  in operational condition . After rehabilitation and re-equipping ,the water produced from the 4 wells will be pumped into the main water network thus ascertaining the minimum water needs (18.2 ltr / day/ P). 
This action will secure the safety of households,many of them are female headed  households,most vulnerable  returnees amp IDPs . Providing direct supplies into their households preventing from more incidents of water- borne diseases and reduce the reliance on unprotected water sources.
The basic survival water needs based on Sphere emergency standards are 7.5-15 litres per day. Based on the information from the MOWR wells abundance as following: 
Well No 4 Water production  is 20 m3.
Well No 5 Water production  is 20 m3.
Well No 6 Water production  is 20m3 
Well No 7 Water production  is 22 m3.
Total wells water production is 82m3/ hour.
Total water production from the four wells  820,000 ltr / day as follows : 10 h x82 m3 x1000 ltr = 820,000 ltr  , the wells will operate only 10 hours / day due to shortages in power supply.
Target population will receive 18m3 /day/ person, which is beyond 15 ltr specified in sphere standers.   

Activity 2: 
Liquid Waste collection and evacuation for Al  Hussainiyah and Dhiabia suburbs used to be operated through  sewage pumping into a main waste water conveyor  towards an intermediate treatment station . The latter is not operational. HELP will  re- equip sewage pumping stations and connect them  with a pipeline length over 1,860 lm. The pipeline will discharge into 2 open pits close to the conference Palace. In both pits, suction pumps and ancillary equipment will be installed for a final evacuation into a protected and covered cement channel for final discharge. .
 This life saving measure will efficiently reduce health risks related to water borne diseases
Safe, inclusive and quality school for Syrian children In line with the No Lost Generation Initiative (NLG), the INEE Minimum Standards for Education and the fourth Sustainable Development Goal, the project aims to  ensure access to safe, equitable and quality education for children and adolescents affected by the crisis in  Deir-ez-Zor  HTR area (Sub district PCOD SY090100 severity scale 5).  
Access to Education will be foster through the light rehabilitation of 29 schools for 266 classrooms, including WASH equitable services that take into consideration both inclusive and gender base approaches following the standard adopted  by UNICEF and the Education sector. Student will be supported through the distribution of learning material and stationery.
Improvement in quality of education  will be supported through provision to teaching forces of Life Skills-Based Education and citizenship education incorporated in formal learning settings.
Rehabilitation of Al Qosour Houses for Returnees in Homs The crisis in syria affected people especially IDPs who lost their houses and jobs and made hard to live properly becouse of  the high prices of the basic goods and services  , high household rents ,and unemployment .due to this people seek returning to their houses in Homs.
 in our project  will help people who want to return to their homes in  al Qosur  neighbourhood  .we will rehabilitation the damaged house in Al Qosor neighbourhood  by providing reconstruction materials after scaning each house and provide its needs from windows, doors, Sanitary ,Electric extensions and all what it needs to secure a decent life for returnees.
“Provision of health care and medical services for the vulnerable groups of IDPs and hosting community residing in Al-Raml Al-Janoubi ,the city, and the north rural of Lattakia governorate.“ The Child Care Association is a Non-profit association  which care for the families and their children since their first year of birth. And it takes care of widows, the elderly and the women headed households. CCA also provide them with  medical and social care.
Since the NGO has a medical center and  deals with health sector for long time (over 40 years) and during the crisis in Syria the medical center continued its work helping people in need especially the residents in Alramel Aljanoubi neighborhoods-which is near- where many IDPs rented or stayed, as well as the displaced people living in the north rural of Lattakia and the plan to reach them in this project will be by linking with some of the NGOs in that area, as well as doing focus groups in that area to announce our work.
These two targeted areas are inhabited by the poorest population in the city and during this crisis it has become overcrowded by the internally displaced arrivals from other governorates.  The latest estimation of the displaced people in Lattakia are about 449000 persons , this is the number of the IDPs according to OCHA records and the number is increasing more by the time of speaking  . Therefore, the medical and non-medical services no longer meet the increasing needs.

Based on the need assessment conducted by CCA, the proposed project will focus on the following activities: 

-Provision of life-sustaining health services by covering the costs of 400 surgical operations to most vulnerable groups who cannot afford (IDPs and host community) 70% of beneficiaries are women and children. The priorities are caesarean / normal deliveries and orthopedic operations and cancer chemical doses for children.) 

- Providing financial support to referral cases and prescriptions (for unavailable medicines in the health center) for 2600 patients
The association health center can receive patients from Alramel Aljanoubi and the near bye rural and  provide its services for them for free.
Emergency Food Assistance to People Affected by Unrest in Syria According to the 2016 Humanitarian Needs Overview, 13.5 million people in Syria are in need of various forms of humanitarian assistance, of which 8.7 million people, or one in three Syrians, require food assistance. The situation is most grim in besieged and hard to reach areas where approximately 4.5 million people are subjected to partial or complete movement restrictions and have been cut off from regular humanitarian assistance for months or, in some cases, years. In these areas, estimates suggest that more than half the population, 2.5 million people, including almost 500,000 people in 18 besieged locations, are severely food insecure, with some at risk of starvation. 

The recent agreement at the Munich conference amongst the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) members to cease hostilities in the country and facilitate the implementation of UNSCR 2254 gives hope to the humanitarian actors operating inside the country. During this conference, seven of the eighteen besieged areas were identified as priority locations (Kafr Batna, Moadamiyah, Madaya, Zabani, Foah, Kefraya, Deir Ezzor city) that urgently need life-saving food assistance in order to save the 350,000 civilians living in these locations from starvation. 

In light of this agreement, WFP is appealing for a USD 2 million HPF grant in order to provide the civilians living in the seven priority besieged locations with an enhanced food basket in recognition of their food security status and the access challenges. The HPF grant will allow WFP to procure 1,267.37 mt of chickpeas and Plumpy Doz, which will be used to complement the general food basket, so that 70,000 families are provided with a food basket containing 2,100 kcal for a period of three months. WFP aims to distribute the enhanced food baskets for three months to the 350,000 civilians in need who are living in the seven priority besieged locations, based on the assumption that regular accessible will become available. However, the implementation of the proposed activities is subject to approval from the relevant authorities to access the afore-mentioned locations. Therefore, quantities will be prioritised to all besieged locations, whenever access becomes available. Should access to besieged locations fail to materialise, WFP will evaluate the possibility of redirecting the quantities to respond to sudden displacements and surges in humanitarian needs in other parts of the country, particularly in hard to reach locations.