The President of the FPSC, Jumana Trad, participated last 3th April in the Meeting “Women in Dialogue 2016”, celebrated in Tordesillas (Valladolid).
During her speech, she referred to the situation in Syria after five years of conflict, with more than 12 million refugees in neighboring countries or internally displaced persons in their own country.
Jumana Trad focused part of her speech on the humanitarian aid work that the FPSC does in Jordan and Lebanon.
The Foundation is the only Spanish NGO with a permanent presence at the Za’atari refugee camp, where more than 80,000 refugees are currently living.
In this camp, located in the middle of the desert, in northern Jordan, the FPSC has a clinic aimed to attend disabled people, most of them children, where wheelchairs and mobility aids are distributed, physical therapies are performed and inclusive theater activities are carried out with these children.
In Lebanon, the Foundation has established a mental health clinic with a medical team composed of psychiatrist, psychologies and social workers and located in Sidon, aimed to support refugee population that are in extreme situations (acts of violence, risk of suicide).
In the central part of her speech, she denounced the persecution and ethnic cleaning, defined by her as a genocide, that Christians in Syria and Iraq are suffering.
In the framework of the Meeting, Jumana Trad was interviewed by several regional media.