Returnee Water Repair Fund
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Funds repairs to damaged water pumping stations and pipes in areas where displaced families are returning home.
Why this matters in Syria
Since the fall of the Assad government in December 2024, Syrians have been going home in large numbers. UNHCR counted more than 1.6 million refugees returning from abroad, and about 1.89 million internally displaced people returning to their areas of origin, by the end of April 2026. Many arrive in towns where homes, schools and water systems were damaged during more than a decade of war and never repaired.
Pumping stations were shelled, stripped of cables and equipment, or simply wore out after years without spare parts, fuel or electricity. Where they no longer work, households buy trucked water of uncertain quality at prices that strain families who have just spent their savings getting back. Restoring one station and its main pipes can supply an entire town, and a working tap is often part of a family's decision about whether returning is viable.
What your gift pays for
- Replacement pumps, motors and electrical panels for damaged or looted pumping stations
- Solar arrays or generator support where grid electricity is too unreliable to run pumps
- Repairs to main transmission pipes and storage reservoirs serving returning neighborhoods
- Chlorination equipment and water testing to confirm restored supplies are safe to drink
Organization
Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) · Syria
Founding decree (Red Crescent national society) · No. Decree No. 540/1942 (work regulated by Decree No. 117/1966)
Founded 1942 · Headquarters: Damascus
Rehabilitates water pumping stations and networks restoring supply to returning communities.
How they work: SARC works through a network of governorate branches and sub-branches staffed largely by volunteers, giving it access to communities across the country. Its water and habitat teams rehabilitate stations and networks in partnership with the ICRC and with the local water establishments, the public bodies that operate supply in each governorate. Teams typically assess damage, carry out or contract repairs, and hand systems back to the water establishment to run.
Track record: In 2021, with ICRC support, SARC rehabilitated the 60%-destroyed Zour Abo-Zaid water station in rural Hama as residents returned, serving 42,000 people in Souran and Taibet Al-Imam.
✓ Verified by our team on 17 September 2021
Giving in Syria
Families returning to damaged homes in Syria face broken water systems and hard winters, and the two causes listed meet both needs. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent repairs water pumping stations and pipes in areas where displaced people are coming back. Molham Volunteering Team provides insulation, heating fuel and blankets for families living in damaged homes and camps through the cold months. Both aim to make return and recovery workable after years of war.
2 causes are listed in Syria, each with its own verified organization. $208,448 has been distributed to causes in Syria since 2021.
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