Life-saving emergency shelter/NFI support to earthquake-affected population in Aleppo Governorate ltpgtltspan style="color: black font-family: Arial, sans-serif font-size: 8pt"gtOn Monday the 6th of February, two major
earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 hit southern Turkey and Northern Syria.
The earthquake caused a large number of casualties and widespread destruction
to infrastructure and civilian buildings. Moreover, this disaster happened at a
time when the humanitarian community in Syria was already struggling to respond
to the large numbers of people in need (15.3M across Syria, HNO 2023). The
affected population is struggling to meet most of their immediate basic needs,
including temporary accommodation, water, food and hygiene items, protection,
etc. Many people who have lost their homes, whose houses are critically damaged or who are afraid to return to their homes are currently residing in collective shelters. The Aleppo Collective Shelters Assessment of 25 February stated that key needs in these shelters include protection, lighting, cleaning materials and food. Out of the respondents, 27 percent reported incidents of sexual harassment and a further 20 percent expressed fear of harassment and/or al lack of privacy due to the lack of segregation and separate WASH facilities.lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgt

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10.0ptfont-family:" lang="EN-US"gtIn response to the critical needs of earthquake
affected populations in Aleppo, ZOA will intervene in the Shelter/ NFI sector
to contribute to improved access to safe and dignified shelter for affected
households. ZOA will rehabilitate Al Bayrouni school in Aleppo, Jebel Saman
district in Aleppo governorate. The school is one of the 17 permanent shelters nominated
by the Governorate of Aleppo to host vulnerable people affected by the latest
earthquake. Currently only a few families are using the space as shelter, but it is estimated that the rehabilitated school will serve up to 60 earthquake-affected
households. ZOA already has the required approvals for this rehabilitation and can start quickly. This rehabilitation includes minor repairs to doors, windows, roofs,
separations in the rooms, some WASH facilities in the main shelter building, solar
power etc. as in line with the findings of the technical assessment conducted
by ZOA on 26 February 2023. ZOA is coordinating with NRC which will
rehabilitate the WASH facilities unit next to the shelter to be rehabilitated.lt/spangtlt/pgtltp style="margin-top:9.95ptmargin-right:0cmmargin-bottom:
9.95ptmargin-left:0cm" class="MsoNormal"gtltspan style="font-size:8.0ptfont-family:" lang="EN-US"gtDuring the rehabilitation of the Al Bayrouni School /collective shelter, ZOA will take into consideration
protection issues through separating bathrooms and showers for female and male,
ramps if needed etc. ZOA already has all the needed approvals to start the
rehabilitation upon the approval of the project and is thus able to start the
activities as soon as possible. lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgt

ltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black" lang="EN-US"gtIn addition, ZOA will also target 1,225 households (estimated 6,125 individuals) with unconditional labeled cash for shelter to allow people whose houses
have been damaged during the earthquake to conduct the necessary minor
repairs. The amount of the cash transfers is 400 USD equivalent in SYP, as
per the latest guidance of the Shelter/NFI sector.lt/spangt



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