Maria Lúcia Ferreira lives in the Monastery of São Tiago Mutilado, in the village of Qara, 90 kilometers north of the capital Damascus, in Syria. She describes a dramatic situation in a country already ravaged by 10 years of war. The earthquake on Monday left 60,000 people homeless and foreign aid must come “without prejudice.”
Sister Maria Lúcia Ferreira makes an appeal: it is essential that international aid can reach Syria In statements to TSFthe sister of the Monastery of São Tiago Mutilado says that, in this country, almost everything is missing.
The earthquake last Monday was “the icing on the cake”, in a country already devastated by a decade of civil war: “There is almost no gasoline or electricity. With the sanctions, people already had difficulties eating. Now, this tragedy” .
The kill balance has been constantly updated. An estimated 60,000 people were left homeless. To care for the survivors, “warm clothing is needed, because the temperatures are usually below zero, and food.”
Maria Lúcia Ferreira emphasizes the need for help from abroad and understands that the sanctions against the Bashar Al Assad regime must be lifted.
“It is very important that containers are sent to Syria and that all prejudices about the government are overcome. It is to overcome all this so that the aid reaches the people, because with the sanctions there is still a lot left in the country ”, he underlines.
The town of Qara escaped Monday’s earthquake without major damage, but Sister Maria was awakened around 4:20 am: “It was almost two minutes, she felt fine, but thank God, there was no damage here.”
Source: TSF
