Photos from Syria, Middle East

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Driving around Damascus

Damascus

Restoring electricity supplies – street lines

Restoring electricity supplies – sub station

Print/copy shop busy as people recover documents to prove housing, land, property (HLP) ownership for building permits, and civil documentation

Reopening food shops in partially damaged buildings to meet increasing demand for basic food

Reopening hardware shops in partially damaged buildings

Damage to state utility buildings (water, electricity, etc)

Mixing of waste streams with rubble – waste/rubble recycling programme recommended

Inadequate solid waste management creates public health risks

Rubble clearance from roads to restore access

Rubble clearance from roads to restore access

Returning home and rehabilitating partially damaged dwellings

Returning home and rehabilitating partially damaged dwellings

Damaged buildings

More houses

Destroyed houses

800,000 houses partially damaged

21% of dwellings partially destroyed

Estimated 1.2 million houses destroyed or damaged

400,000 houses totally destroyed

7% of dwellings totally destroyed

Schools rehabilitated and re-opening, this one is now running two shifts with a roll of 1,100 students because it covering for other schools not yet re-opened

returning home after 7 years of war… a picture says 1000 words

Reopening hardware shops in partially damaged buildings to meet increased demand for construction materials

Rubble clearance required before work can begin on damaged water / sewerage pipe networks

Hardware store reopened and returnees living in a partially damaged building

Queuing for bread at a rehabilitated bakery

Damage to water supply and sewerage systems

Temporary water supply in the streets

The team

Everyone needs to eat

Structural damage assessments are required before building rehabilitation

Construction engineers on the ground

Back to school

Rehabilitating state run bakeries to restore basic food supplies

Kids happy to be in school

Rubble clearance from roads to restore access

Palmyra street view

Camp View

Nice pole things

Lisa is cold but happy

View from camp

Street Sign

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Brief history of Syria

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Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Syria was administered by the French until independence in 1946. In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel. Syrian troops - stationed in Lebanon since 1976 in ...more history

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