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Syria: Causes and types of Injuries

Posted on Emergencies by Molly Feltner · December 24, 2018 5:50 PM

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Syria: Causes and types of injuries (2014)

Causes and types of injuries encountered by Humanity & Inclusion while working with Internally Displaced Persons in Syria: a focus on the impact of explosive weapons. 
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Hidden Victims of the Syria Crisis

Posted on Emergencies by Molly Feltner · December 24, 2018 5:46 PM

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Hidden victims of the Syrian crisis: disabled, injured and older refugees (2014)

Older, disabled, and injured Syrian refugees are being doubly victimized as a result of the Syria conflict, according to a new report by Humanity & Inclusion and HelpAge International. The new data show that these vulnerable individuals, as well as those suffering from chronic diseases, are being left in the shadows of the humanitarian responses.

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Report|Removing Barriers: Lebanon

Posted on Emergencies by Molly Feltner · December 24, 2018 5:19 PM

With support from the Australian Government, this study was carried out between October 2017 and January 2018, in areas with high concentrations of Syrian refugees such as Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel governorates of Lebanon. We reached 506 households with 2,495 people in Lebanon. Participants were randomly selected to join the study. 

 

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1/5 Syrian Refugees has disability

Posted on News by Mica Bevington · September 17, 2018 12:39 PM

More than 60% of Syrian refugee households include a person with disability, and 1/5 of refugees in Lebanon and Jordan have a disability, according to a new study by HI and iMMAP[1]. The survey ran from 2017-2018, and so far has resulted in two reports, four fact sheets and a Data Dashboard that provide statistical figures on people with disabilities among Syrian refugees and their access to humanitarian aid.

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Syria's seven-year conflict | “We need to carry on helping these refugees”

Posted on News by Michele Lunsford · March 14, 2018 2:53 PM

Syria’s seven-year conflict has devastated the country, resulting in unprecedented population movements. More than five million Syrian refugees are living in neighboring countries, including more than one million in Lebanon. Mariam has been working as a physical therapist for Humanity & Inclusion in Lebanon ever since we launched our emergency response in the country. Below, she describes a day in her life supporting refugees.

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Over time, Mariam has become accustomed to the human cost of war.

“I’ve seen a lot of people injured in the conflict over the years,” she explains. “What really strikes me is how, in general, they’re just as likely to be affected mentally as they are physically. It’s hard to see people looking so desperate. But I try to do what I can to make their lives easier.”

As winter settles over the Beqaa Valley, Mariam sets out on the same journey she has been making, five days a week, for the last five years. As one of Humanity & Inclusion’s physical therapists, she travels to the homes of Syrian refugees and provides them with rehabilitation care. Her outlook on the humanitarian crisis and her approach to working with refugees has changed over the years.

“I can remember when I started working here,” she says in the car on the way to visiting one of our beneficiaries in their shelter. “People were in dire need. A very high number of them were coming into Lebanon from Syria and there were hundreds, thousands of casualties. It was quite daunting.”

Mariam always knew she wanted to help refugees

“The refugees who need physical therapy care – I could have been one of them. Using my skills to help them just seems the right thing to do. I’m doing what I’d want them to do for me, if the shoe was on the other foot. I’ve come across so many people who have really benefited from our work. And working in the field every day, I’ve seen what a big difference we make to their lives.

Session after session, Mariam’s visits become part of the everyday lives of the organization’s beneficiaries. She’s also seen the situation change over the years.

“Most of the people I visit live in makeshift camps. They might have lived there for years, but their homes are still far from comfortable. They live in very tough conditions, and as the war grinds on, things are getting worse.”

“We’re starting to see different types of injuries and disabilities as well. I deal with a lot of routine injures now because refugees are more likely to live in precarious circumstances. For many people with chronic diseases, their health gets worse too, because they don’t have access to the care they need.”

Access to care is vital

As she arrives at the camp, before starting her first visit of the day, Mariam adds: “Very few organizations in the country offer services like physical therapy. But physical rehabilitation makes a big difference to the lives of conflict-affected people.”

“We absolutely have to do everything we can to help these refugees and to meet their essential needs as long as the conflict lasts and even once it’s over.”


Beneficiary story | “HI has given us reason to carry on”

Posted on News by ron smith · December 04, 2017 3:05 PM

“We left our country when the conflict began,” Hiyam tell HI’s team in Lebanon about fleeing the violence in Syria. “We didn’t want our sons and daughter to grow up with the war. When we arrived in Lebanon, we thought we’d be safe. Then one day, on my husband Talal’s way home, a car came out of nowhere and plowed into him. My daughter was also in the car and she’s still very traumatized by the accident.

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They took my husband to the hospital where he spent a month in intensive care. The doctors told us he wouldn’t survive, or if he did, he wouldn’t remember anything. They also said he’d be totally paralyzed for the rest of his life. I remember the first time I visited him in his hospital room. He looked like he was dead. I was devastated.”

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Stories from the field | Pink Martini, toilets, and children like me

Posted on News by ron smith · December 01, 2017 4:47 PM

This is my first International Day of Persons with Disabilities since getting home from a five-month mission in Beirut, Lebanon, where I helped eight other NGOs make their water points, toilets, and hygiene facilities more inclusive for people with disabilities, older people, and the vulnerable.

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Beneficiary story | Securing a good future for Fayez

Posted on News by ron smith · November 16, 2017 3:13 PM

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New HI report | Everywhere the bombing followed us

Posted on News by ron smith · October 16, 2017 6:00 AM

When the bombs started falling near 31-year-old Ranim’s home in Syria, she drove her four children to her parents’ home, a few hours away. Her husband stayed behind to get their belongings in order.

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"Aya doesn't die"—Giles Duley uncovers the shocking situation of disabled refugees on Unreported World

Posted on News by ron smith · August 11, 2017 1:59 PM

The U.K.'s Channel 4 produced a must-see, powerful and heart-breaking documentary about disabled refugees who have fled the war in Syria. Watch their program, Unreported World and the stories of "The Invisible People."

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