Campaign launched to replace tent with houses for displaced in northern Syria

Molham Volunteering Team, a Syrian-led not-for-profit organization, launched last month a campaign to relocate displaced families in northern Syria into house units.

The campaign, dubbed ‘Until the Last Tent’, initially aimed to fundraise 400 USD thousand to move 100 families from tents to decent houses. It also aimed to draw the attention of the international community and charity organizations to the substandard tents Syrian live in and their suffering from weather harsh conditions and brutal cold.

Given the team’s high credibility and transparency, the campaign exceeded its stated goal, raising an amount of about 3.6 million USD. Accordingly, the team decided to raise the target to build 900 housing units with an area of 55-60 m2, with 500 of them to be implemented as a first phase and continue until all families are moved.

The NGO Molham Team was founded in 2012 by a group of dedicated Syrian university students based in Jordan. It seeks to help Syrian refugees in neighboring countries and northern Syria. The nonprofit organization is based in Turkey and has legal status and offices in Germany, Sweden, and Canada.