In Syria you survive. Every day is a struggle to eat.
After more than ten years of war, Syria continues to experience a deep crisis.
In Aleppo, thousands of families have to choose every day between buying a piece of bread or heating their homes.
There is no work. Salaries are minimal. Banks only allow you to withdraw $30 per week.
And hunger is growing.
Due to the conflict and economic sanctions, there is a lack of basic necessities.
Gas and electricity are only available for a few hours a day.
Cooking a meal has become a luxury.
Every day, people of all ages – the elderly, families, children – line up at our soup kitchen in Aleppo.
Many have worked their entire lives, and today they are forced to pick up a hot meal to survive.
An increasingly frequent scene is the one that occurs at the end of the distribution:
A line of desperate people hopes that there is something left, even just a piece of bread.
Our daily commitment in Aleppo
In the midst of all this pain, Pro Terra Sancta does not stop.
Every day we are at the side of those who are hungry, those who can't make it, those who have lost everything.
With the “Five loaves and two fish” project, we guarantee:
- 1,200 hot meals a day, cooked in the canteen
- 600 kg of bread a day, produced in our solidarity bakery, distributed six days a week
- Home deliveries for those who cannot leave their homes: lonely elderly people, sick or disabled people
- Support for orphanages and nursing homes, to which we provide more than 50 meals a day
