Report on the Archbishopric and the Syrian Crisis
Greek Catholic Archbishopric
Of Lattakieh and Christian Valley
LATTAKIEH-SYRIA
Greek Catholic Archbishopric
Of Lattakieh and Christian Valley
LATTAKIEH-SYRIA
Material damage
- Al Hosn parish
- Church and presbytery broken into and damaged
- Waqf Rest Home and shops dependent on the church completely looted and wrecked. Estimated cost of repair $40,000
- 73 families made homeless and jobless, their homes devastated and demolished
- Two priests and their families made homeless
- Damage to other churches hit by shells. Estimated cost of repair $10,000
- Assistance by the Eparchy’s Welfare Committee to displaced and arrested persons as of 15 June 2013:
Location Number of displaced families Christian Valley 900 families Safita 120 families Lattakieh 75 families Tartus 120 families Total 1215 families
Areas of urgent need
- Rent
- Food, baby milk
- Clothing
- Furniture, beds, blankets, sheets
- Refrigerators, kitchen utensils
- General medicines, surgery, drugs
- Detergents
- Heating, fuel, stoves, gas
- Bursaries
General relief to displaced persons, reckoned at $100 per month: | $120,000 |
Help with cost of monthly rent for 700 families at $100: | $70,000 |
Monthly total: | $190,000 |
Demographic situation
Displaced persons come from:- Homs
- Qusayr
- Damascus
- Hama and district
- Idlib
- Deir-al-Zor
- Tabka (various regions)
- Lattakieh’s suburbs
- Ghassanieh
- Hassakeh
- Kaussabba
Economic situation
- All the displaced families are living below the poverty threshold and have resorted to the help provided in order to survive
- Most displaced persons are unemployed because their shops have been looted and destroyed and they cannot return home
- Many civil servants are no longer in receipt of their salaries
- There is inflation as things become more expensive due to scarcity.
+Mgr. Nicholas Sawaf
Archbishop of Lattakieh and Christian Valley
Archbishop of Lattakieh and Christian Valley