Three Peaks Trek for Syria
Eloise Watt is raising money for Hand in Hand for Aid and Development
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Hello
In under a week I am doing the Three Peaks Challenge
I hope you are as affected as I am by the horror going on in Syria. I will get straight to the point; I have lifted a paragraph from the Hand in Hand for Syria Website, I think it summarises the situation well:
"It all began with a child
In April 2011, a 13-year-old boy, Hamza Al Khattib, sprayed revolutionary graffiti on the walls of his school in Dara’a. He and his friends were detained by security forces for interrogation. A month later, his tortured and mutilated body was returned to his family by the security forces. It marked a turning point: people were outraged by the way a child had been treated. Hamza’s death sparked mass protests calling for democratic change and freedom of speech.
Death, execution & torture
According to Oxford Research Group in November 2013, 11,420 Syrian children have been killed in the conflict. 70% died from explosions and 25% from gunfire. 764 were summarily executed, and 389 shot by snipers. 128 were killed in the chemical attacks in Ghouta in August 2013. 112 were tortured — including infants as young as one year old. And it’s still happening."
I'm doing this challenge for Hamza and all those people who have lost their lives, and for all the other children and people who are being brutalised and tormented by this war.
I believe that the charity that offers front line, first hand support to the hardest-to-reach areas on the ground is Hand in Hand for Syria: it delivers a wide range of aid as quickly as possible.
We are all human beings! We all deserve to live our lives without fear.
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