It is bitterly cold in Idlib at the moment. Help us send baby kits and more.
 
 
 
John,
Just days ago in a refugee camp a Syrian baby died from freezing temperatures.

An already catastrophic situation in Syria is getting even worse. That's why we are working to send 3,000 baby kits with warm clothes to places where they are needed most. Please, can you help?
 
 
 
 
Baby kits go to mothers like Jumana, a 32-year-old with nine children. When she was seven months pregnant, a gas heater set fire to her tent and a child's hand was badly burnt.

The stress she endured led to her giving birth prematurely.

John, we need to help innocent people living through war and conflict, starting with the smallest and most vulnerable. Please, will you donate today to help us reach refugee families, including mothers and young children in desperate need?
 
 
 
 
"It is bitterly cold in Idlib at the moment," Misty Buswell, IRC's Policy, Advocacy, and Communications Director in the Middle East, reports. "Thousands of people are sheltering in tents, in unfinished buildings and in their vehicles. With temperatures now dropping as low as -11 degrees, people are resorting to ever more desperate measures to keep warm – burning clothes, tires and plastic bags. But even this is not enough."

As each day of winter passes, refugees - especially mothers - are growing more and more frightened. They are hoping someone, anyone, will help them.
 
 
 
Please, give now and help us support people like Jumana who are facing the most difficult moments of their lives. Your gift will support our work in Syria and around the world.
 
 
 
 
Sincerely,

Emily Sernaker
The International Rescue Committee
 
 
 
$21 represents the cost of a newborn baby kit filled with clothing, warm blankets, baby soap, diapers and other necessities. Gifts like baby kits are symbolic, representing many of the programs, projects and tools that compose the IRC's work every day around the world. Allowing us to deliver comprehensive and holistic help to uprooted people, your gift will be used where and when most needed. And, when combined with those of other donors, your gift becomes a powerful means to survival, recovery, and the restoration of dignity and self-reliance for those uprooted by conflict or natural disaster.

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