Reporting by Ahmed Khalil; Translation by Yusra Ahmed
(Eqtsad)- Besieged areas are still suffer of hunger and lack of most essential needs, food, and medicine, even it reached to preventing children milk from entering these areas.
Many attempts and campaigns took place aiming at least to let the milk powder reach to besieged areas, but without noticeable results, even the artists’ campaign in 2011 which was called "milk eruption" was not successful. The last case of using and manipulating children milk was the shipment of expired milk which was due to enter to the opposition areas in northern Syria.
Moreover, the regime-controlled areas started suffering of monopolizing and manipulating prices of milk powder without any moral deterrent.
It has been notice that the breast feeding among mothers in Syria has dropped, maybe due to stress, and emotional and psychological consequences of war, besides malnutrition.
In the same time, milk prices is continuously increasing, as prices of 400 grams of milk has ranged between SYP 2300 and SYP 2750, and the increase most likely to happen after a period of discontinuity, to appear later in market at shockingly high prices.
Children's complementary food is not in better position as their prices increase as well, for example, cerelac, 400 grams has become for SYP 1400, while prices for 200 grams of Sami rice in different flavour ranged between SYP 375 and SYP 525.
Feeding children has become a huge burden on Syrian families of limited income, as baby needs a can of milk each 4-5 days, making 6-8 cans a month, which cost SYP15000.
In regard to nappies, the prices has undoubtedly risen, and the cost could reach to SYP 6000-7000.
if we calculate the cost of a child for a family of an employee at a salary ranges between SYP28000 and SYP 32000, we see that it would consume the whole salary, some family tend to feed their children cow milk for SYP 150 per kilogram, but it needs boiling till sterilisation, then it weakened with water (one size milk mixed with 2 sizes of water) but still that is not a good option, as children, especially under one year old usually suffer of diarrhoea and vomiting, which needs treatment, and sometimes children need hospitalisation, therefore, families pay what they save from milk price to doctors and hospitals.
Syrian mothers appeal to all humanitarian organisation and charitable bodies to think of Syrian children and allocate part of the aid for them.
(Eqtsad)- Besieged areas are still suffer of hunger and lack of most essential needs, food, and medicine, even it reached to preventing children milk from entering these areas.
Many attempts and campaigns took place aiming at least to let the milk powder reach to besieged areas, but without noticeable results, even the artists’ campaign in 2011 which was called "milk eruption" was not successful. The last case of using and manipulating children milk was the shipment of expired milk which was due to enter to the opposition areas in northern Syria.
Moreover, the regime-controlled areas started suffering of monopolizing and manipulating prices of milk powder without any moral deterrent.
It has been notice that the breast feeding among mothers in Syria has dropped, maybe due to stress, and emotional and psychological consequences of war, besides malnutrition.
In the same time, milk prices is continuously increasing, as prices of 400 grams of milk has ranged between SYP 2300 and SYP 2750, and the increase most likely to happen after a period of discontinuity, to appear later in market at shockingly high prices.
Children's complementary food is not in better position as their prices increase as well, for example, cerelac, 400 grams has become for SYP 1400, while prices for 200 grams of Sami rice in different flavour ranged between SYP 375 and SYP 525.
Feeding children has become a huge burden on Syrian families of limited income, as baby needs a can of milk each 4-5 days, making 6-8 cans a month, which cost SYP15000.
In regard to nappies, the prices has undoubtedly risen, and the cost could reach to SYP 6000-7000.
if we calculate the cost of a child for a family of an employee at a salary ranges between SYP28000 and SYP 32000, we see that it would consume the whole salary, some family tend to feed their children cow milk for SYP 150 per kilogram, but it needs boiling till sterilisation, then it weakened with water (one size milk mixed with 2 sizes of water) but still that is not a good option, as children, especially under one year old usually suffer of diarrhoea and vomiting, which needs treatment, and sometimes children need hospitalisation, therefore, families pay what they save from milk price to doctors and hospitals.
Syrian mothers appeal to all humanitarian organisation and charitable bodies to think of Syrian children and allocate part of the aid for them.
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