The UK is helping to train a wide range of Syrian activists to learn search and rescue techniques to help save lives in their communities. In the last few months, participants in a UK-funded ‘civil defence’ course in Istanbul have included an English literature student, a fruit wholesaler, an engineer, a dentist and even a couple who had just gotten married. The course offers hands-on training to give volunteer activists the skills they need to help save civilian lives in Syria, devastated by more than two years of conflict. The UK has run three courses for 75 participants, organized in coordination with the Syrian National Coalition’s Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU). The courses were run by the Turkish Search and Rescue NGO, AKUT, at their specially constructed training site in Istanbul.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 04:36:15 +0000
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