Qatar Charity (QC) continues to provide heating fuel, warm clothes and other winter assistance to Syrian refugees in Arsal and many other areas of Lebanon to ease their humanitarian suffering. This aid comes as part of Qatar Charity’s “Below Zero” campaign in light of recent blizzards and rainstorms that hit the country recently, flooding the refugee camps there.
Despite the accumulated snow that covered the streets and continuous rainfall, Qatar Charity’s field teams managed to deliver the aid to the Syrian refugees in the affected areas.
A Syrian refugee in a camp, which is 3 km away from Arsal, said that the fuel oil distributed by Qatar Charity in cooperation with its local partners, is a basic material needed by affected families in the harsh cold.
Jassim al-Ali, a refugee living in an informal camp in Beqaa, spoke about the hardship of his family. “The water has entered our tent. We spent the whole night pulling water out of the tent, but it was flowing into the tent again and again”, said Al-Ali. This is the worst winter for the refugees in the region, he added. Jamal, another Syrian refugee, said, “The water level is more than half a meter in our tent.”