Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Good morning, all. I would like to start by thanking Development and Peace, who invited me here to Canada to share my story and to talk about the work that I do in the Darna centres in Syria, which serve the vulnerable Syrian families who have chosen to stay in Syria

Foreign Affairs committee  If I understand you well, it is the same for minority groups as for the majority. Most of the Syrian people have faced this forced displacement. Most of them have moved to live in other cities in northern Syria and in the middle, as well as the majority who are Muslims maybe.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, this is the case in most of the camps, even in the Kurdish-controlled or the regime-controlled area, and it's very different from the liberated area.

Foreign Affairs committee  Since I am a refugee and I'm in Turkey, maybe I can explain our situation in Turkey, but I can't give you the full picture of the refugees. I just know the general picture.

Foreign Affairs committee  I've been living in Turkey for four years. Most of the Syrian refugees in Turkey lived in urban areas. Nobody knows the camp, and no local or international organization can work within the camp. It's totally served by the government. Most of the Syrians have entered Turkey illega

Foreign Affairs committee  My personal view is that it's harder for women to find jobs. I can say, like here, there are two levels of women. There are women who are educated and have the skills to find jobs. There are a lot of organizations working internationally and locally, Turkish and Syrian organizati

Foreign Affairs committee  How can we provide it?

Foreign Affairs committee  For what we are doing, we started our centres inside Syria with support from Development and Peace. After we knew the real needs and what to do next, we wrote a proposal and sent it to a lot of international NGOs—most of them were INGOs because it always gets through to them. The

Foreign Affairs committee  No, even inside Syria. Most of the organizations now that are in Turkey work inside Syria. They even have teams inside Syria, as we do. We have teams inside Syria. We have people who can go and come back. It's harder at this time to go and come back, but yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  How many organizations are working in Turkey?

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, there are a lot of organizations working there, but not a lot of them are taking the middle side—I don't know what that is in English.

Foreign Affairs committee  Neutral. There are a lot of for-profit companies that are working there, also. They have offices in Turkey, and they also work inside Syria. I believe—I don't know, but the last time I was reading statistics, about five months ago—there are 600 organizations. As I mentioned, mos

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Actually, I did a lot of statistics recently but nothing comes to mind now in terms of an exact number. I can assure you that through a very simple search on the Internet you can find some statistics.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, actually I was invited by an organization called IWPR, Institute for War & Peace Reporting. Each year they have Syrian women go to the United States to meet the organizations there and the people who are making decisions. This year they cancelled it. I was supposed to

Foreign Affairs committee  For sure, I have a lot of challenges with this. First, until now, funding went through different organizations. We have funding from the EU but it goes through Expertise France, and through us. It's not cost-efficient. It is the same with UN agencies. They take a lot of overhea