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Welcome to Rojava Support Network

Rojava Support Network was created to link individuals, people, and existing groups that are either already involved in Rojava solidarity work or want to support in whatever way.

Rojava Support Network aims to provide a platform for exchange and communication as well as publishing activities and documentation run by groups and indivuduals. Our main focus is supporting medical aid on the ground (frontline near setting as well as long-term follow up), coordinating medical groups that want to contribute and also to document through photography and short videos the ongoing humanitarian situation in Rojava.

Rojava support network is not an NGO and no commercial company. It consists entire of concerned individuals doing work with no official status or funding of our personal money or donations from people who support saving lives in the war recently started by the turkish invasion. Turkish forces and turkish-backed jihadist fighters are currently committing war crimes and atrocities in the Turkish state`s plan for ethnic cleaning and demographic change in the majority Kurdish regions of northeast Syria (Rojava). All money recieved and spent will be accompanied by reports to maintain transparency.

Rojava support network invites anyone or any group interested in Rojava to get involved and contact us: info@rojavasupportnetwork.org

How to get involved

Background

After the president of the United States pulled back his troops from the border between northeast Syria and Turkey, the long threatened invasion of Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) started on october 9th.

The situation since is a humanitarian desaster and the policies for an attempt at ethnic cleansing by the Turkish regime and their jihadist militias against Kurdis in Rojava are no secret. Violation of international law and human rights, bombing of hospitals, use of chemical weapons etc. is happening and the whole world is watching. The response from international authorities has been very restrained and almost non-apparent for those most affected by this invasion. After international NGOs withdraw from NES, the situation worsened and the kurdish self-administration is appealing for urgend humanitarian aid. Around 300 000 civilians have been displaced (70 000 of them are children) and are living in camps, schools, public buildings etc. with an immense lack of medical aid, clean water and food.

For many of us Rojava stands as a symbol for revolution, freedom and a life beyond capitalism and exploitation. Behind the frontlines an alternative society project is still under way, aiming to build a free society following the ideas of democratic confederalism in which the liberation of women, gender equality, ecology and an alternative social, political and economic system plays a central role. All this is being realized in a very unique way – and in the middle of a civil war.

About us

There are two topics that we mainly focus on:

One is medical support (as some of our group members are doctors and paramedics) in terms of supporting the local health structures (hospitals, triage centers, primary healthcare points), bringing medicine and supplies and regarding long term projects setting up counselling via telemedicine and giving trainings (train the trainer) to local health staff. Therefore we are in connection with the Health Committee of the self-administration and Heyva Sor, so as to have some guidance to be able to go where we are most needed, but we are also taking initiative to find and implement creative solutions for the ever-growing problems this invasion has, and will inevitably continue to, bring forth.

We are also in communication with colleagues (volunteers, doctors, and nurses) who are currently working in different health facilities throughout Rojava giving us continously updates on the current situation on the ground.

Medical support

The other topic is media related work. This work will include not only documenting our ongoing work and the general humanitarian effort, but also on short missions to document, in real time, people’s self-defense efforts, and the ongoing local and regional changes in Rojava through photographs and short reports (the people handling this aspect of our work are experienced in photography who already have, from the last trip, a vast collection of photographs documenting many aspects of life in Rojava from the last parts of the official war against ISIS all the way down to daily life in the cities and rural communities in the peace time that followed). But surely the most valuable aspect of this particular work will be ensuring that cases of war-crimes, violent attacks on civilians, children, aid workers, volunteers, community leaders etc. These incidents must be documented, compiled, and reported to organizations tasked with handling the legal aspects of state-backed war crimes and human rights violations.

Media related work

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