On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, Kurdish Red Crescent psychosocial support teams implemented a field campaign from October 10 to 16, 2025, covering nine locations:
Tal Tamer, Al-Hol 1, Al-Hol 2, Abu Khashab, Ma’badah, Washokani, Al-Shaddadeh, Al-Rasheed Clinic in Raqqa, and displacement camps.
Campaign Objectives:
* Raising awareness of mental health and its importance
* Providing direct psychological support and initial interventions
* Building a safe dialogue environment
* Reducing the stigma associated with mental disorders
* Monitoring community psychological needs
More than 275 beneficiaries participated in 57 awareness and psychological support sessions.
Our message: Mental health is a right for everyone, and psychological support is as necessary as food and medicine.
Because you are important, don’t hesitate to ask for help.
Our points are here to serve you.
Distribution of 754 Hygiene Kits as Part of the Emergency Response Project Supporting Displaced Persons from the Shahba and Aleppo Regions Residing in Shelters in Raqqa
This initiative comes as an effective contribution to the ongoing efforts aimed at providing a safe and healthy environment for the displaced. The hygiene kits include essential items designed to promote both personal and public hygiene, thereby helping to protect the health and safety of the beneficiaries.
In the Pink Month, breast cancer awareness continues in camps and centers
The month of October is called the pink month, and it is a month in which health campaigns strive to provide the necessary support to raise awareness of the danger of breast cancer and educate about its prevention.
Within this effort, health education teams provide awareness campaigns and brochures about breast cancer targeting women in camps in northern and eastern Syria, where they are introduced to this disease and how to detect it early, in addition to prevention measures, through visits inside the tent, as well as during Their reviews of the Kurdish Red Crescent centers located in each camp.
The number of cesarean section births is increasing in general in the northeastern regions of Syria, which negatively affects women’s health in the long term. With the aim of raising the level of health education among them in the Shahba and Jazeera regions, health education teams affiliated with the Kurdish Red Crescent, in coordination with the Women’s Committee, have conducted a series of awareness lectures on the benefits of natural childbirth, breastfeeding, and the negatives of cesarean section and artificial feeding. This also included the distribution of thousands of awareness brochures within camps and villages, as well as medical points affiliated with the Kurdish Red Crescent and villages.
