We have been working since 2013 when the air strikes against civilians started. We didn't have any training at that time. Then we started to get training from Turkish civil society organizations. We had training also through another UN-affiliated agency, as well as seven days of training in Turkey.
Then we went back to Syria to implement the training in search and rescue operations in order to search the rubble in our areas.
One year ago we started to welcome trainers. We started to have experience in civil defence. We have all the training inside Syria presently. We have missions and activities for first response operations in case of air strikes, search and rescue operations for children and civilians caught under the rubble, and firefighting units providing aid and first aid to the wounded. We move the civilians out of the affected areas, help the wounded, and help the families to identify the dead.
We also raise awareness in all communities, among women and children, on how to deal with air strikes and how to deal with cluster bombing and the devices that remain after war.
We have around 90 volunteers and we are trying to mobilize more women into civil defence. We try to empower women and young people to promote the resistance of women and young people in Syria, in order to provide services and relief services to communities and societies in which we work.
We also try to provide emergency services and maintenance and repair work for electricity and supply channels. These are the services that we are providing inside Syria. Our organization involves around 3,000 volunteers working in around 120 stations, dispatched in nine governorates. These are Damascus, north Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, and we are currently working on creating four other stations in Quneitra governorate to provide services in this governorate in which we are not yet present.
We have around 360 volunteers working for daily responses in case of air strikes and providing emergency services for the civilian inhabitants inside Syria.