Displaced people from Girê Spî and Raqqa call for safe return

With the start of the new school year, pressure on displaced families to vacate classrooms and make them available for students has increased. The decision has caused great concern and fear among the displaced, as no alternative shelters or accommodation have been provided for them.

These families are facing extremely difficult circumstances due to a lack of humanitarian assistance and the absence of basic services, including water, electricity and medicine. Most of them are children and elderly people who cannot afford to rent homes.

Siham Muslim, a displaced woman staying in one of Kobani’s schools, said: “We have been facing severe difficulties for 10 months. We are still living without water or electricity and under immense pressure.”

Siham added: “With the start of the new school year, families are being forced to leave the schools, but so far, there are no places for us to go. We also want to live like everyone else.” She concluded: “Solutions must also be found for us.”

Ahmed Mohammed Ali, from Girê Spî, said he and his family had been displaced twice: “We were displaced from Girê Spî to Raqqa. Then, when the war broke out in Raqqa, we were displaced again to Kobani, where we have been staying in schools.”

Ali and his family, who are staying in schools in Kobani, said: “Schools are for education, not for living. Our children have been deprived of education and do not have even the basic right to learn their mother tongue in their schools.”

Ali said they want to return to their homes and properties, adding: “Our demand is to restore security so that we, the displaced, can return to our homes and live in peace.”

Boshra Muslim, a child displaced from Raqqa, expressed her demand, saying: “We want to return to our homes so that we can receive our education in our schools like every other child.”

The displaced people are appealing to humanitarian organizations and relevant institutions to urgently intervene to find a suitable solution for them and provide shelter before they are forced out and left on the streets.

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ANHA