皇冠体育app

In the last few months, participants in a UK-funded search and rescue 鈥榗ivil defence鈥� course in Istanbul have included an English literature student, a fruit wholesaler, an engineer and a dentist. 皇冠体育app course offers hands-on training to give volunteer activists the skills they need to help save civilian lives in Syria, devastated by more than two years of conflict.

Participants, who train as a team for their local area, will learn how to put out fires and the right techniques to rescue people from collapsed buildings, as well as provide first aid. 皇冠体育app courses have trained teams from three towns in northern Syria which have come under heavy air and artillery bombardment.

皇冠体育app UK is also providing search and rescue equipment, including cutting tools, generators, lighting and communication equipment for use in these areas.

A course participant said:

鈥溁使谔逵齛pp course is useful for teams who work in civil defence and rescuing civilians in Syria, who are suffering because of the shelling by Assad鈥檚 forces.鈥�

皇冠体育app UK has run three courses for 75 participants, organized in coordination with the Syrian National Coalition鈥檚 Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU). 皇冠体育app courses were run by the Turkish Search and Rescue NGO, AKUT, at their specially constructed training site in Istanbul.

Separately to this programme, the UK has also committed 拢348 million in humanitarian aid funding to help those affected by the conflict, the UK鈥檚 largest ever response to a humanitarian crisis.

It will provide support including food, medical care and relief items for over a million people including those affected by the fighting in Syria and to refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.

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