By Bridget Johnson in PJ Media
The weather has been freezing in refugee camps housing Syrian
families who have fled the bloodshed in their home country, adding just one
more challenge to humanitarian organizations scrambling to help people lacking
in both food and medical care.
Here’s one heartwarming story out of the crisis, though: Hand in
Hand for Syria, a London-based charity focusing on bringing medical care and
food to dying Syrians, reported the above donation. A 92-year-old woman
identified as Doris from Swindon knitted 400 sweaters to send to Syrian
children. Amazing.
Hand in Hand for Syria notes
that, as it intends to deliver aid to help people help themselves, they are
currently planning a textile workshop and opening a school to get local
children back into education.
“We believe in delivering emergency relief in a sustainable way,
such as by employing local staff so that they can support their own families,
buying supplies in Syria to help the country’s economy, and providing training
to local Syrian doctors equipping them to deal with the terrible injuries of
war,” the group says in its mission statement. “…The conflict in Syria is
rapidly developing into the worst humanitarian crisis we have seen this
century.”
Bridget Johnson is a career journalist whose news articles and
opinion columns have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget
first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The
World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion
writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world
news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. She has contributed to USA Today,
The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico and more, and has
myriad television and radio credits as a commentator. Bridget is Washington
Editor for PJ Media.
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