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To date nearly 1.5 million Syrian refugees who have fled the conflict are in Lebanon. Almost half of those affected by the crisis are children and adolescents under 18. The children are currently growing up at risk, deprived, of acute basic services and protection. With ongoing violence in Syria and a worsening humanitarian crisis inside Syria this figure will rise.

Not long after the beginning of their terrible civil war Bosnians became aware of, and thoroughly fed up with, fleeting visitors to their country who arrived armed with promises of help and equipped with cameras to record their visit. Unfortunately too many were like Macbeth’s “poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more”

In the past year the world has become accustomed to disasters of one sort or another. Quite obviously the worst ones are those produced by nature but in the last year we have witnessed man made tragedies that were unfortunately very close to home.

In theory the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) has the lead responsibility for ensuring an integrated package of care for persons with disability (PWD) and their families in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. However, despite the presence of very favourable legislation, implementation is poor.

The villagers of Bedadi on the Pakistan Kashmir border were made homeless when their houses were destroyed in the earthquake of 2005. After initially providing emergency relief (in the form of shelter, food and essential non-food items) IDEALS then purchased a piece of land on which to build new homes.

IDEALS financially supported the first Primary Trauma Care course in Delhi at the Apollo Hospital in September 2005. This was the first of such courses that had taken place with a Pakistani teaching faculty, Indian doctors and IDEALS Chairman, John Beavis. It confirmed that warm friendship can exist between the two countries when political differences are forgotten and was entirely within the founding ethos of the charity.