Notícias
PRESS RELEASE N. 95
Brazil sends water purifiers and food to Syria
As determined by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian humanitarian donations, including 90 drinking water purifiers and 7 tons of nutritional dehydrated food, arrived in Syria on March 13 in support of the victims of the earthquakes that hit the Syrian and Turkish territories on February 6.
The 90 water purifiers have the capacity to produce, as a whole, more than 500 thousand liters of water daily, a volume that serves more than 25 thousand people. The 7 tons of nutritional dehydrated food are, in total, equivalent to about 280 thousand meals.
The shipment was received by the Lebanese Red Cross and sent overland to Syria, with logistical support from a local company and in coordination with the Brazilian Embassies in Beirut and Damascus. The Brazilian humanitarian donations will be delivered to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, which will then distribute them to the country.
Brazil's humanitarian assistance to Syria is coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), through the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), responsible for humanitarian cooperation provided and received by Brazil, in conjunction with the other federal agencies working in a coordinated manner within the Interministerial Working Group on International Humanitarian Cooperation.