{"id":28648,"date":"2016-12-22T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=28648"},"modified":"2016-12-22T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T15:05:23","slug":"beautiful-together-project-feed-shelter-aleppo-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/beautiful-together-project-feed-shelter-aleppo-orphans\/","title":{"rendered":"“Beautiful Together”: A Project to Feed and Shelter Aleppo Orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than five years, the world has watched the conflicts in Syria escalate into more violence, more heartbreak \u2013 and now more orphaned children in need of care than ever before.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The children that have been able to flee Aleppo are leaving the biggest city in Syria \u2013 and endless bombing, drastic food shortages, an increasing lack of medical aid and the heartbreaking destruction of their home and communities. Most horrific of all, they have lost their family; they have lost their parents. Thousands and thousands of children are now suddenly orphans. And, if they are \u201clucky\u201d, they are now refugees, too.<\/p>\n

And there is no\u00a0question that these children are as truly innocent as this brutal assault is unjust.<\/p>\n

\"Aleppo<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Syrian Orphans Org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Watching the heart-wrenching, horrific footage, it\u2019s difficult to process that children who have actually gotten out, who have been pulled from the rubble, are considered\u00a0the lucky ones,\u00a0as Dr. Ossama Abu Alez, a surgeon in Eastern Aleppo,\u00a0explains here<\/a>. And the background on this, the history and the actions that have led to this very real genocide \u2013 unthinkable brutality \u2013 is as complex as it is frustrating to witness. This account<\/a> detailing \u201cthe death and destruction .. as its hellish descent continues\u201d is entitled \u201cInside Aleppo\u201d<\/a>, and it is as enlightening as it is exhaustingly sad.<\/p>\n

We all want to do something<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You only need see\u00a0the raw trauma on the face of Aya<\/a>, and all who surround her, in the BBC piece Aleppo is a place Where The Children Have Stopped Crying<\/em>\u00a0 to ask What Can I\u00a0Do To Help???<\/strong>
\nI know the\u00a0refrain that has been going through my mind: I wish we could stop this. I wish we could stop this. I wish we could stop this.<\/em>
\nThe only other thing we can do, in lieu of having the power to stop this, is to help. And to help fast.<\/p>\n

It is winter in Syria and Turkey and those children lucky enough to get out of Aleppo, traumatized, many very recently orphaned, must survive not only their immediate situation but also the cold. They must eat; they must drink; they must have somewhere to lay their heads at night.<\/p>\n

Please help us help them.<\/a> We are working to immediately<\/em> provide 100 Aleppo Orphans with the supplies they need to get through winter at a temporary refugee camp currently being built in Turkey, as they flee their homes.<\/p>\n

Supplies include:<\/strong><\/p>\n