{"id":32679,"date":"2024-12-03T13:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/?p=32679"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T11:43:22","slug":"kontajnery-pre-syrsku-latakiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/kontajnery-pre-syrsku-latakiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Containers for Syrian Latakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Our director Stano Bielik writes directly from Syria about our aid in Latakia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ap2m8\" data-offset-key=\"788g7-0-0\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"134m\" data-offset-key=\"8shne-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8shne-0-0\">\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Armed conflict has broken out again in Syria. The country has been under enormous strain for years - war, earthquakes and an economic embargo have caused immense damage. A young mother from Damascus, who wished to remain anonymous, confided in me: \u201eI guess we are a very beautiful and important country when we have all the world powers competing with us... Why won't they finally leave us alone?\u201c I didn't have an answer to that, I just told her that our job is to help people in need.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Containers for the people of Latakia, Syria\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFEA8De_dpI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Latakia, we recently completed the reconstruction of a water pipeline that was destroyed by the earthquake. Thanks to our great partners and contractors, we decided to use the money saved on another worthwhile project. The city asked us to help them procure large-capacity household waste containers - a seemingly trivial but crucial issue for the functioning of a large city. After lengthy administrative processes, we managed to secure not only the planned 36 containers, but as many as 58.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have been closely monitoring the security situation in Syria over the last few days, which is changing by the hour. After a morning briefing, the security team agreed to let us leave, and we arrived in Latakia on the day of the container distribution. Yesterday they were brought from Hama - and we were lucky, because today the situation there is much more dangerous.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32684 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ADRA-vecer-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ADRA-vecer-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ADRA-vecer-1-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ADRA-vecer-1-1024x423.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ADRA-vecer-1-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ADRA-vecer-1-1536x635.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ADRA-vecer-1-18x7.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The containers are really big, so their placement required careful planning. The municipality decided that they would be placed on the three main streets of the city, where they could be easily emptied by garbage trucks. Transporting the containers was a challenge - the crane truck had to stop at each bridge and check the height in order to cross without any problems. After a few tense moments, we reached the city centre. The unloading of the 280-kilogram containers was accompanied by the incredible skill of the crane operators - sometimes it resembled acrobatics.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Local residents stopped by - some with a bag of garbage, others with questions or comments. Many noticed the ADRA sign and <span class=\"html-span xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\">SlovakAid<\/span><\/span> - Good Idea Slovakia, some even mentioned the old Czechoslovakia, as there are still old \u0160koda cars on the local roads.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saying goodbye, the local government chief told us: \u201eI have had a wonderful day with you today. If you could provide 300 more containers, that would be fantastic.\u201c With a smile, we thanked him for the great cooperation and said goodbye.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The work lasted until late in the evening. Tired but satisfied, we finally got to eat - we had breakfast, lunch and dinner all at once. Such is a day in the field.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Get involved in helping Syria and Lebanon.<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adra.darujme.sk\/adra-zbierka-pre-libanon-a-syriu\/\">Donate to the ADRA public collection through the portal darujme.sk<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. . .<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The project SAMRS\/2023\/HUM\/1\/5 - Water for Life: Rehabilitation of Water Infrastructure for Earthquake Affected Communities in Syria (RINSE) is funded by the Official Development Assistance of the Slovak Republic and implemented in cooperation with the partner organization ADRA Syria.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25951 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SlovakAid-GIS-MALE-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SlovakAid-GIS-MALE-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SlovakAid-GIS-MALE-1024x488.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SlovakAid-GIS-MALE-768x366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SlovakAid-GIS-MALE-1536x731.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SlovakAid-GIS-MALE-2048x975.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SlovakAid-GIS-MALE-18x9.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SlovakAid-GIS-MALE-2000x952.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u00e1\u0161 riadite\u013e Stano Bielik p\u00ed\u0161e priamo zo S\u00fdrie o na\u0161ej pomoci v Latakii. V S\u00fdrii op\u00e4\u0165 vypukol ozbrojen\u00fd konflikt. Krajina u\u017e roky \u010del\u00ed obrovskej z\u00e1\u0165a\u017ei \u2013 vojna, zemetrasenie a ekonomick\u00e9 embargo sp\u00f4sobili nesmierne \u0161kody. Mlad\u00e1 matka z Damasku, ktor\u00e1 si priala osta\u0165 v anonymite, sa mi zverila: \u201eAsi sme ve\u013emi kr\u00e1sna a d\u00f4le\u017eit\u00e1 krajina, ke\u010f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":32680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[337,345],"class_list":["post-32679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria","tag-slovakaid","tag-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32679"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32765,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32679\/revisions\/32765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}