Small charities provide in Turkish refugee camps in need of protection. On financial aid from the European Union, you need to avoid. The applications are too complex.
By Karin Senz, ARD-Studio Istanbul
About 3.6 million Syrian refugees living in Turkey, as many as in any other country. Three years ago, the EU concluded with the Ankara refugee Pact. Thus, Brussels is assistance in the billions to said height.
Many aid agencies provide refugees, however, without the grants. Because of the formalities surrounding the applications were much to complicated, it again and again. TIAFI about taking care of the Baden-Württemberg Association of the “3 Musketeers” especially Syrian women and children in Izmir on the Turkish Aegean sea. Because donations are not sufficient, it requires creative ideas.
Anne O’rourke stands at the front door of a dilapidated factory hall. Hosgeldiniz, she says again and again in Turkish. So they welcomed Turkish men from the neighborhood, most of them are homeless. Here Syrian women cook every day 250 food not only for Syrian refugees but for all who need help, explains the Irish. She lives since many years in the Izmir Region.
An Afghan refugee waits in a accommodation in the vicinity of Izmir. (File photo)
“Alone as a woman in the poor neighborhood – it’s not easy,”
“Normally, the Syrians get the help. But now you can give the community something back,” says O’rourke. “This is good for your self-esteem. And it is also for the municipal well, the looks, the women integrate and want to have, that you want to help.”
The focus is on Syrian women and their children. In an adjacent room, an improvised nursery is decorated with red balloons on the ceiling. The Little ones can sit with your Syrian relations in the circle.
Firda from Aleppo lives with her two boys and her sick mother since for the last seven years in Turkey, and her husband is in Germany and does not care. “Alone as a woman in the poor district of Izmir – is not easy,” says the 32-Year-old. Especially when men catch on to that, then you can watch them. But God happened thank never.
applications much too time-consuming
The charity TIAFI is for you as a family. You will feel safe and secure – and can even earn a bit of money. You sewing bags and backpacks and sell them on the Internet via the baden-württemberg Association of the “3 Musketeers”. Money is always tight, sighs Anne O’rourke. With the donations, they can hardly make ends meet. And of the EU-billions, you get nothing. The applications were complicated, the bureaucracy for a small organization such as TIAFI much too expensive:
“We have here not only an office opened, write reports, or do statistics,” she explains. “We are here for the people there, give them something to eat, we try to find for you accommodation, accompany you to the hospital, try places for their children in the schools and learn Turkish to help.”
A young woman TIAFI has also given some start-up capital: “First, you bought to perfume, then perfume and Eyeliner, perfume, Eyeliner, and mascara. Now she has a couple of girls selling in the neighborhood for you to cosmetics,” said the irishwoman.
A bright spot for Anne O’rourke, in all the misery. She remains in front of a series of pictures on the wall. Children have painted them. On a once you see a little Boy as he plays happily on the beach, and once, as he lies dead on the same beach. The 8-year-old Mohammed has painted, as he bombs tear apart the heart. Always, the images are bleak, she says, with yet more bombs.
“I’m just like”
Regular Arabic-speaking by the end of psychologists in the old factory hall to work with the traumatised children and their mothers – on a voluntary basis. Anne even offers conversation circles, in order to arouse the women back a bit of hope: “I’ve met a lot of mothers, some of them were really young, grade changes 26,27. And they said to me, my life is over. But that’s ok. I just want my kids to school and live a good life”, she says.
Ahmet from Damascus thinks so: “I want to go to Europe to have as a future, but a future for my children, so they can go to the University. I’ll see you later, maybe as a doctor, lawyer or engineer. Because I can’t study’ in Syria. My wife is an engineer, but it can’t work.”
The 28-year-old is a refugee himself and grabs at TIAFI, wherever he can: “Sometimes I work in the kitchen, cooking or sink. Sometimes Syrian women come to sew. Then I’ll give you a few tips on how to use the sewing machine. Sometimes I help the bottom of the clean or pranks. Actually, it plays‘no matter what I do. I’m just happy,” he says with a cheerful Smile. One of the few adults, seem to be where light-hearted and optimistic.
Many want to continue deceiving
of The ticket. Ahmet is no longer deserted from the Syrian army, back in his country. The Turkey’ll take good care of the Syrian refugees, he says. the Also, Firda, the young mother from Aleppo told that her sick mother, for example, gets to be in the hospital for free Insulin.
in spite of this you want to continue on to Germany. Since both of her brothers life. Most of the people here, it would risk to escape with the boat to Greece, if they had the money. Anne O’rourke know: “I’m watching a Video of the Camps on the Greek Islands. This is what we show to the people here. Because I want you to see that there is not the Paradise that you dream of. And I want you to know, it got on the boat, a lot of people are killed.”
The small Person with the big heart, takes a snow globe from a table with toys and to rotate them. Children have made from a Jam jar. The irishwoman smiles deep in thought, while dancing the Golden shreds in the water to the ground. “I thought, at one point, it sounds that Europe would find a solution. But there is probably no solution. Everyone is trying to just limits. That’s all,” she says.
One of the children expressed to her leg, she gives him a Smile and stroking him lovingly on the head.
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