A group of Al Jazeera correspondents, Arab leading Satellite Channel, launched an initiative to build 500 rooms near the Turkish borders to host 3000 Syrian refugees at least, Zaman Alwasl reporter said.
The ‘generous initiative’ led by the veteran Syrian journalist and Al Jazeera senior correspondent, Tayseer Allouni, according to the Media activist, Ala’a al-Din Yousef, who is supervising the project of $184,000 budget, funded by Al Jazeera staff.
Yousef said that 450 room of concrete have been built so far with School and mosque, adding that the deteriorating refuge condition on the borders and the hard living circumstances in the camps pushed Allouni to this initiative which soon have been adopted by Al Jazeera correspondents where everyone contributed by $480, ‘’simple amount but it did so much’’.
More
than 2.5 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war
in March 2011, taking refuge in neighboring countries or within Syria itself.
The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has
exceeded 600,000 and more than 400,000 of them are living outside refugee
camps, the Turkish disaster management agency said according to Reuters.
Turkey,
which shares a 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria, is a strong critic of
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and a main supporter of the rebels fighting against
him.
About 200,000 Syrians were living in 21 refugee camps, mainly near cities near the border, Aydogdu said, while the rest chose to live in rented accommodation outside the camps.
Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in August Turkey has already spent around $2
billion sheltering the refugees. The United Nations expects another 2 million
Syrians to become refugees in 2014 and 2.25 million more to be displaced within
the country.
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