afrinpost – Follow-up
The Turkish authorities continue to solicit more financial support from various associations and institutions around the world, including Islamic ones to finance demographic change projects in the areas they occupy as well as their areas of influence, the latest of which is gaining a financial support from a Canadian charity to build a new settlement gathering in Al-Bab or occupied Afrin city, northern Aleppo.
The project, according to what the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency reported on the Canadian “Human Concern International” foundation, is called “Village of Hope,” and it will be established in the Al-Bab or Afrin area in the countryside of Aleppo.
The project includes the construction of 500 homes, a hospital, a mosque, a school, parks, a soccer field and a market in the village, at a cost of about $1.7 million obtained by the association through non-governmental donations.
According to the charity, the project aims to house more than 3,500 people who will live in 500 houses. Each house consists of two rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a living room, with basic services such as clean water and electricity. The default cost per house is 3,700 Canadian dollars. A school is also included in the project, that includes 16 classrooms with all their requirements and accommodate 1,000 students, as well as a mosque in the center of the village.
The time period for building the project is 12-16 months, according to preliminary estimates, and 35 homes will be built during the current month. The Canadian Islamic Charitable Foundation did not mention any other details about the displaced who will live in this village, or any other considerations related to the priority of housing.
It is noteworthy that the number of camps in northern Syria is 1,633, according to the statistics of the “Syria Response Coordinators” team, with one million and 811,000 people living there.
