Samara’s Aid Appeal

This initiative started in August 2014 with an email to the mothers in Samara Levy's son’s year group, appealing for winter clothes and shoes to send to the people displaced in Iraq who lost everything when IS took their towns, cities and villages.

It has quickly grown into a larger project which provides medical and humanitarian aid, currently focused on Syria. We have sent 110 consignments (artic lorries to Iraq, and 40’ containers and ambulances shipped to Syria) carrying clothes, shoes, bedding, toiletries/hygiene items, essential medical equipment, ambulances and school equipment.

Recently all our aid has been directed to Syria and, with partners on the ground, have served many different areas including Damascus, Ghouta, Aleppo, Deir Ez-zor, Homs, Hama, Latakia, Tartus, and Sweida. Our aid has served significant numbers of people living in post-siege areas in Syria, and has been distributed in these places after the sieges were broken - when it became possible to safely take aid into these areas, ensuring that it reached the people who need it. We have also historically distributed aid in Iraq including Dohuk, Erbil, Kirkuk, Karbala, Baghdad, Sinjar and Akra in addition to Jordan and Lebanon.