(Eqtsad)- Damascus' In areas in the besieged south of Damascus, winter has another rhythm.
Bashar al-Assad forces continue their blockade on the area and continue to ban entrance of fuel in conjunction with shortage of woods in the area due to consuming it in the past years and increase of prices. Added to that is the widespread unemployment and difficult economic conditions from which the area suffers due to the blockade. This forced the residents to use animal waste, plastic, and shoes as alternatives to fuel.
Manufacture of al-Jileh is a new way to face the harsh cold.
Abu Ratib (38), a resident in Yalda town, talks to us about the manufacturing of al-Jileh where the cow waste is collected in a big plastic container. He adds to it hay and straw and then he mixes it to be more tight. Later, it is left for mostly a week and then it would be fully covered. After revealing it and putting it under the sun, it is turned into small discs to be ready to use for fire in the heaters.
Abu Ratib adds, “we had to use this as an alternative to fuel because population in the areas south of the capital do not have the money to buy woods whose price reach 100 SP per kg due to the spread of poverty and imposed blockade in the area for three years.”
He pointed out that most families in Yalda, Babila, and Bayt Sahim towns use al-Jileh as an alternative for food and diesel.
Abu Ali (40), a resident in Yarmouk Camp and a father of three children, says, “I do not have the money to buy food for me and my kids to be able to buy woods. So, I restored to use old shoes, plastic, and Nylon for the heater instead of woods although it releases damaging smells which may led to diseases, but I do not have any other way.” Abu Ali adds that most families in Yarmouk Camp depend on these materials as alternative to heating because woods have been quite consumed in the past years.
On her part, Oum Mohamed (50), resident in al-Rija area which is besieged by Assad forces and Palestinian militias on the one hand and ISIS on the other hand. She is the caregiver of 5 kids after her husband was killed by bombing on the area. Oum Mohamed says to Eqtsad, “I do not have any alternative for heating, but I collect some plastic and old shoes and clothes as well as small woods from destroyed houses to use it for cooking and heating. ISIS and regime’s blockade has drained us.”
Regardless of all of this, the smile of hope does not depart the faces of residents of south Damascus which increases their will to stand in the face of tyranny of the criminal regime and its mercenaries and to find alternative solutions to face their blockade hoping that one day, “the sun of freedom will shine and they will safely without the Assad and its dictatorship regime.”
Bashar al-Assad forces continue their blockade on the area and continue to ban entrance of fuel in conjunction with shortage of woods in the area due to consuming it in the past years and increase of prices. Added to that is the widespread unemployment and difficult economic conditions from which the area suffers due to the blockade. This forced the residents to use animal waste, plastic, and shoes as alternatives to fuel.
Manufacture of al-Jileh is a new way to face the harsh cold.
Abu Ratib (38), a resident in Yalda town, talks to us about the manufacturing of al-Jileh where the cow waste is collected in a big plastic container. He adds to it hay and straw and then he mixes it to be more tight. Later, it is left for mostly a week and then it would be fully covered. After revealing it and putting it under the sun, it is turned into small discs to be ready to use for fire in the heaters.
Abu Ratib adds, “we had to use this as an alternative to fuel because population in the areas south of the capital do not have the money to buy woods whose price reach 100 SP per kg due to the spread of poverty and imposed blockade in the area for three years.”
He pointed out that most families in Yalda, Babila, and Bayt Sahim towns use al-Jileh as an alternative for food and diesel.
Abu Ali (40), a resident in Yarmouk Camp and a father of three children, says, “I do not have the money to buy food for me and my kids to be able to buy woods. So, I restored to use old shoes, plastic, and Nylon for the heater instead of woods although it releases damaging smells which may led to diseases, but I do not have any other way.” Abu Ali adds that most families in Yarmouk Camp depend on these materials as alternative to heating because woods have been quite consumed in the past years.
On her part, Oum Mohamed (50), resident in al-Rija area which is besieged by Assad forces and Palestinian militias on the one hand and ISIS on the other hand. She is the caregiver of 5 kids after her husband was killed by bombing on the area. Oum Mohamed says to Eqtsad, “I do not have any alternative for heating, but I collect some plastic and old shoes and clothes as well as small woods from destroyed houses to use it for cooking and heating. ISIS and regime’s blockade has drained us.”
Regardless of all of this, the smile of hope does not depart the faces of residents of south Damascus which increases their will to stand in the face of tyranny of the criminal regime and its mercenaries and to find alternative solutions to face their blockade hoping that one day, “the sun of freedom will shine and they will safely without the Assad and its dictatorship regime.”
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