Qatari minister inaugurates Al Amal City in Northern Syria to shelter displaced people

Published: 30 January 2025

City includes 1,400 houses equipped to accommodate more than 8,800 people

Qatar News Agency
Doha

Minister of State for International Cooperation H E Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al Misnad inaugurated Al Amal residential city project to shelter people affected by crises and provide decent housing for dis-placed families in northern Syria.

The opening ceremony was attended by Turkish Deputy Interior Minister Munir Karaloglu, Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) Secretary-General Durmus Aydin, Mayor of Turkiye’s Gaziantep Fatma Sahin, and Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Charity (QC) Yousef bin Ahmed Al Kuwari.

The residential city, created in cooperation between QC and IHH, includes 1,400 houses equipped to accommodate more than 8,800 people and is equipped with basic service facilities of schools, markets, a health center and a mosque, making the city a qualitative leap in the lives of hundreds of families who have moved from refugee tents to homes that preserve their dignity and provide them with safety.

The process of housing displaced families living in the camps of northern Syria in Al Amal city was launched with the aim of providing safe and dignified shelter to the most vulnerable displaced families who have suffered from harsh tent conditions for many years.

The relocation operations to the city will continue in stages for several days, to ensure a smooth and orderly transition of families to their new homes, to be a safe haven that alleviates their suffering and provides them with a stable and dignified environment and life.

This project was born thanks to the support of the Qatari people, who contributed to providing safe shelter to the affected families, which contributes to alleviating their suffering and stabilizing them away from the camps.

HE Al Misnad said that the State of Qatar, under HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani’s lead-ership, has always shown a pioneering stance in backing Syrian people.

Al Kuwari said that the project in the town of Soran in Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria, came as a gift from the charitable and generous people in the State of Qatar to their displaced Syrian brothers who were exhausted by the war and the harsh conditions.

Many beneficiaries of the project expressed their overwhelming happiness at receiving their homes after years of suffering in tents under difficult circumstances, noting in this regard the continuous Qa-tari support and QC’s efforts to complete this project.