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URGENT APPEAL: help Syrian refugee

parents like Khitam to protect their

children through the winter.

“Living here, in

these conditions,
Khitam lives with her children, I cannot keep my

husband Abdelsalam, and his elderly
children healthy.”
parents in a single, damp room of a
half-built apartment block near

Tripoli, Lebanon.

There are holes in the Agency, needs your support
walls and ceiling, and they to help parents protect their
share a toilet with other children this winter.
refugee families crammed Please will you give £75
into the building. Khitam to provide a refugee family
and Abdelsalam like Khitam’s with a © UNHCR/Hannah Maule-ffinch © UNHCR/Andrew McConnell
are mentally Winter Survival
and physically Kit to protect
exhausted 100mph. against the
after years Wind speed freezing
of struggling weather?
during Storm
to survive, The kit
Norma, Lebanon,
unable to earn contains Fatimah (4) contracted Khitam believes that makeshift shelters made
a living and January 2019. essentials such worms. Khitam herself without assistance from of little more than wood
fighting a daily, as a heating developed painful growths UNHCR “my children and plastic sheeting. With
relentless battle to stove, thermal on her throat and lost her would be dead”. temperatures falling, the
feed their children. blankets, warm voice. Without access to a Across Lebanon and lives of the most vulnerable
Right now, they are clothes and a tarpaulin for free healthcare system like Jordan, seven of the last – young children, pregnant
terrified by the prospect of insulation. It could mean we have in the UK, eight winters have women and the elderly – are
another winter in their cold, survival for a family like Khitam became brought heavy snowfall at grave risk.
uninsulated single room. Khitam’s. overwhelmed Give £75 and temperatures With a gift of £75 you can
Another winter where they Two winters ago, as a with worry regularly drop provide a Winter Survival
to provide a
will feel every blast of icy result of their exposed and about how to Syrian refugee below 0°C. Kit containing a stove,
wind. Another winter where unsanitary living conditions, pay for the family with a Right now, with the blankets, warm clothes and
every time their children Khitam and all of her treatment and Winter Survival conflict continuing a tarpaulin to help a family
cough or sneeze they will children became ill. Baby medicines her Kit in Syria, 1.7 million insulate and heat their
fear they have contracted Bilal had a high temperature children needed. refugees in Lebanon home. Please give today –
a lethal respiratory and diarrhoea. Her sons “I felt helpless. and Jordan remain unable you could save the lives of
condition like pneumonia Khaled (3, pictured) and My children were coughing to return home. They are children like Khitam’s.
or tuberculosis. Abdul Rahman (8) had chest and crying and there was living, like Khitam’s family,
UNHCR, the UN Refugee infections and their sister nothing I could do.” in derelict buildings, or in

Visit unhcr.org/wintersupport Yes, I will help Syrian refugee families

or call 0800 029 3883 survive the winter

Please accept my gift of: £75 £150 £225 My own choice of £
With £75, you can give a Winter
Survival Kit containing: Please post urgently to: Freepost UNHCR. You do not need a stamp. WOPAWI19A
Please debit my: Visa MasterCard Maestro Maestro only
Card no. – – –

Valid from – Expiry date – Issue no. Maestro only

Signature Date / /

STOVE TARPAULIN
I enclose a cheque or postal order made payable to UNHCR
For heating and cooking. For insulation. Keeps the cold
(Currently CAF cheques cannot be accepted)
An absolute essential. out and the warmth in.
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nothing. A simple blanket keep families warm,
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