We returned to the camp during days of almost unimaginable heat. Nevertheless, step by step, we carried out everything we had promised to do.

We delivered the distance-support contributions directly to each family. We distributed food parcels and met individually with the people we support, to find out how they were doing and what had changed since our previous visit.

Some families have returned to Syria, as others had already done in recent months. Many, however, continue to live in the camp, facing extremely difficult conditions every day.

Five days of medical visits and treatment

Dr Andolina joined us on the mission. For five days, he examined and treated children, adults and elderly people, providing medicines and prescribing the necessary therapies.

Bringing healthcare directly into a camp is one of the most valuable, but also one of the most demanding, activities we undertake. It means reaching people who would often have no other way of receiving a medical examination or obtaining the medicines they need.

This is what a donation can make possible: treatment that might otherwise never arrive.

The tent school and the children at risk of feeling forgotten.

During the mission, we also returned to the tent school. Despite all the difficulties, its activities continue. However, the number of children who are able to attend remains very small compared with the number living in the camp.

We support these children individually, helping them learn and welcoming them into a place where they can feel safe. For a child who was born or raised in a camp, learning to read and write provides a first tangible connection with the world beyond it.

While they are still small, childhood offers them some protection. As they grow older, however, they begin to understand that life outside the camp is moving forward without them. That is when they start to feel forgotten.

After so many years of watching them grow up in these conditions, this is perhaps the most painful part of all.

A real opportunity for the young adults or teenagers..

A significant part of this mission was dedicated to the young adults. We sat beside them and their families, listening to them for hours, one at a time.

We are developing a programme that will begin with training inside the camp. The students will learn Italian and acquire practical professional skills, supported by teachers and technicians who will travel there to work with them.

If all the necessary conditions are met, regular employment in Italy could await them once their training has been completed.

During this mission, the project took an important step forward. The students now fully understand the value of this opportunity and have said that they are ready to study, work hard and take the required examinations.

We saw something light up again in their eyes—something that is difficult to preserve in a refugee camp: the possibility of imagining a future.

Now the most difficult stage begins

The process is not yet complete, and we do not want to describe it as though it were.

The most complex stage begins now: obtaining the documents each student needs in order to leave. For this reason, we devoted an entire day to meetings with UNHCR, the Consulate and the International Organization for Migration.

Two possible routes have been identified and currently appear to be feasible. At the same time, over the coming months we will organise the planned training sessions inside the camp.

We cannot yet promise that everything will work out as we hope. What we can promise is that we will continue trying with all our strength.