Providing services to families returning from al-Hol Camp

On January 29, the Social Affairs and Labor Authority in Raqqa Canton opened the social care center in the district, in order to provide social services to several segments within society.

The Social Welfare Center in Raqqa Canton includes 11 offices, including the Case Management and Psychological Support Office, the Women’s Office, and some organizational and administrative offices. It seeks to organize livelihood courses and psychological support courses, organize vocational courses, raise capabilities, and provide social and legal services, health care and supporting several groups within society (such as widows, divorcees, orphans, the elderly, and people with special needs), in addition to helping families returning from al-Hol Camp to integrate into society.

The center opened several vocational and intellectual training courses for families returning from al-Hol Camp, where 149 women have so far undergone these courses. The vocational courses focused on how to master some professions, such as making cleaning materials, pastries, dairy, and cheese, and the intellectual courses included legal consultations, materials on women’s rights, and agriculture. Trees and awareness activities.

The co-chair of the Social Welfare Center in Raqqa Canton, al-Muntaser Fahmi, said: “Women returning from al-Hol Camp are being reintegrated through organized programs, which include protection sessions and community integration sessions with society, and also through livelihood programs.”

Al-Muntaser Fahmi pointed out that there was a response from most of the women who participated in the training courses, and he said: “There is a good change in their behavior through their involvement in society and their entry into the labor market.”

Fahmi noted the existence of future plans, livelihood projects, protection projects, and plans for children to develop their skills through awareness sessions and flexible discussions to improve their ability to engage within society.

So far, the Social Care Center has been able to organize 6 courses, by specialized teams in several fields.

Al-Muntaser Fahmi indicated that they have now opened a new course that includes 16 women who returned from al-Hol Camp, and said: “The women are trained by specialized teams on how to make cleaning materials, and how to benefit from the support provided by organizations to open projects that help them develop their economy.”

Abeer al-Sheikh, one of the women returning from al-Hol Camp, thanked the Social Welfare Center for its support of women returning from the camp, and said: “The Social Welfare Center provided many economic projects for us so that we could manage ourselves, and today we are undergoing vocational training to learn how to prepare cleaning materials, and after the end of the course, Support us by opening small projects to manage ourselves and be able to engage in society, to become a role model for all women returning from al-Hol Camp.”

The number of families evacuated from al-Hol Camp to Raqqa canton reached 633 families, with 2,241 members, including women, children and men.

T/ Satt.

ANHA