We really need your help. We, the people who have witnessed this humanitarian disaster unfold, now have a way of taking action. We are coming together to fund a children's hospital to be delivered on a convoy.
The convoy leaves London this Saturday (December 17th) and we need £90,000. Please donate, please support this positive action.
http://www.peoplesconvoy.com
State of emergency
In the last few weeks, the remaining hospitals in East Aleppo were bombed out of operation. One of the hospitals destroyed was the last remaining children’s hospital. It was bombed whilst treating the victims of a chlorine gas attack.
As recent as last night (December 12th) innocent civilians and health workers have been killed as Aleppo has fallen, but the survivors desperately need medical assistance.
Healthcare in Syria is in a state of emergency, these unprecedented attack on hospitals and health workers is a breach of the Geneva convention. It is a war crime. Whilst our governments fail to act, we the people can and will act.
The convoy
In an effort both to provide help and to show solidarity for health care workers and Syrian civilians, a crowdfunded convoy of hospital equipment and supplies is leaving London on 17th December for a seven day overland journey. It will be met at the Turkey border by Syrian medical/humanitarian organisations who will take the convoy onward to rehabilitate a building and equip it as a new paediatric hospital.
The hospital will have a reach of 185,000 people, and is expecting to treat 5,087 children per month, a figure that is likely to increase.
This will be the first crowdfunded hospital in the world.
This convoy is symbolic as well as practical. It is to say to the medical community in Syria; we can hear you and we stand with you.
How you can help
Many people in the UK will want to stand with us – we need to spread the word through whatever routes you have.
Save Lives
Donate to ensure success of the convoy delivering specific medical supplies to those in urgent need and towards building a hospital.
Show solidarity
Build support for Syria’s heroic doctors, nurses and aid workers through your own networks by supporting and endorsement this campaign. Share a message of solidarity with #PeoplesConvoy
Create political pressure
Amplify the convoy call for an end to attacks on hospitals and civilians; and for allowing immediate humanitarian access to besieged areas.
You can also join the Convoy: ride with us for all or part of the journey across Europe, or join us in your own vehicle.
Or attend the launch event: More details on location & time will be sent to you if you sign up for updates on http://www.candoaction.org
Time is short – convoy departs on this Saturday 17th December.
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Links
- For data on the the attacks on ‘Medical Personnel and Facilities in Syria’ visit https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_syria_map/web/index.html (map view)
- Fundraising page www.peoplesconvoy.com
- Sign up for updates on http://www.candoaction.org
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