Camp residents in northwest Syria struggle to secure clean water Some camp residents in northwestern Syria lack clean water, and despite all the efforts made by organizations in this field, some still find it difficult to obtain drinking water, especially with the approaching summer season. Displaced Syrian boys carry water back to their tent at a camp for the internally displaced near the town of Sarmada in Syria s northwestern Idlib province on July 29, 2020, as Muslims across the world are getting ready to celebrate Eid al-Adha. - AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images
May 6, 2021
IDLIB Over 1 million displaced people in northwestern Syria live in over 1,270 camps, according to the Syria Response Coordination Group.
19 Apr 2021
The Maram Foundation for Relief and Development (Maram) is a non-profit organization, founded by American-Syrian activists to alleviate the suffering of people in need since its inception to date the foundation had delivered lifesaving aid and developmental projects to hundreds of thousands of Syrian IDPs and refugees along with host committees. For more information please visit our website (http://maramfoundation.org/).
Function and Organizational Relationships:
Financial management at Maram Foundation for relief and development is one of many critical functions. The Finance managers must understand what Maram Foundation mission and what they do in order to help all departments make the best use of the allocated project funds. In addition to financial management, the finance manager must provide leadership, clear strategic direction, high-quality programs finance management, shared values in an encouraging organizational culture, and Builds effective relationships bet
Vacancy Ref. No: MF-HR/21-251
Preference is given to Syrian-Turkish
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Prepare financial reports and supporting documents for Donor on a Monthly basis.
Review all expenditures and ensure that they are legally accurate and within the budgets and make sure that all payments are properly charged to the projects in the accounting system according to the financial procedures.
Scan all supporting documents on regular basis to ensure up to data information is available as and when required.
Maintaining up to date files of all financial data and archives in an organized and secured manner.
Assist the Finance team in HQ in all audits whether external, Internal, or Project audits.
When violence broke out in Syria in 2011, Ghasak al-Ali was a high school student. Now, at just 27, she is the breadwinner for 11 members of her family – something that would have been almost unthinkable before the war.
A decade of conflict is evolving traditional values towards gender roles as death, injury, emigration and disappearance into President Bashar al-Assad’s notorious jails have deprived tens of thousands of families of their male earners.
Women are being thrust into the role of the provider in a way few had experienced previously.
Al-Ali, who is from Saraqeb in rural Idlib, the country’s last rebel-held province, had to find work when she was 23 after her father broke his back and could no longer continue his employment. As the oldest of her siblings, she had to take responsibility for the family, earning from humanitarian work and later, as she built up her skills, from journalism.
Syrian’s livelihood exploited for media promotion, what are documentation limits for relief organizations in Syria
Children in Idlib receiving relief aid from the Spotlight organization (edited by Enab Baladi)
Enab Baladi – Diana Rahima
“God bless you for bringing us food; we were hungry.” These little but painful words were said by a little girl who appeared in a promotional video for the Spotlight relief organization operating in Idlib’s displacement camps, northern Syria. The video, published in late October, angered many activists who said that the organization had instructed the child to say the sentence in a “humiliating” way to promote its activities and gain more support.