(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) yesterday announced a $11m (about QR40m) project to set up two villages in northern Syria to rehabilitate displaced Syrians.
This is considered the biggest-project to shelter displaced Syrians, a RAF official said yesterday.
Al Noor and Al Iman villages are built with make-shift shelters and will be ready by Ramadan, Aid Al Qahtani, Director-General, RAF, told a press conference yesterday.
The project is funded by donations collected through a campaign launched by RAF this January. About 11,000 displaced Syrians will be sheltered in the villages, including 450 families who have lost their breadwinners in the conflict.
The villages are in Shammarin area in Aleppo province north of Syria.
Al Noor village will have 800 temporary shelters - caravans - and Al Iman will consist of 700 shelters.
Both will be equipped with mosques, schools, shops, children's stadiums and health and education facilities.
The caravans will be operated with solar energy and will have refrigerator, kitchen, ventilator, among, other facilities.
Meanwhile, Qatar-based Association of Friends of Mental Health (Wayyak) will send a delegation of mental health specialists to the Rayahana refugee camp in Syria near the Turkish border, Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani has said.
The team will train medical professionals to deal with mental and psychological problems arising from the ongoing war.
This is the first mission of Wayyak outside Qatar since it was launched last December, said Al Thani. The team will work in coordination with the RAF relief mission in Syria.
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