Record

LevelSub-sub-series
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)SCF/OP/4/SYR
TitleSyria, now Syrian Arab Republic
Extent2 files
Date1984-2000
DescriptionContains correspondence and papers concerning Save the Children's support for flood victims, and work with Syrian Kurds.
Access ConditionsThere are files in this series which have been closed for 25 years in accordance with Save the Children’s policy.
Further information about the closures can be found in the relevant file level catalogue description.
Access StatusPartially closed
Closed Until01/01/2026
Administrative HistoryAllocations: 1925-1928, 1930, 1932-1935, 1939, 1950-1954, 1967, 1975; see later annual reports for any subsequent allocations.

In November 1924, SCF granted a small amount for the Zouk-Mikael orphanage in Syria. From 1924 to 1940 grants were made to Syria which seem to have been connected to the settlement of Armenian (and from 1934, Assyrian) refugees. In 1948 SCF sent a medical team to Syria to set up infant welfare and feeding centres for Palestinian refugees living in camps at Wadi Raggad, Dera and Ezra, and Sabat (Damascus). The team worked alongside teams from Radda Barnen [Swedish SCF] and Red Barnet [Danish SCF]. By 1951 SCF was working in a refugee camp outside Aleppo. In 1953, SCF decided to relocate its teams in Syria and the Lebanon to Jordan. The work in Damascus was taken over by the Lutheran World Federation.

In 1974 SCF contributed to flood relief.

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