Since May, two staff within Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership have been working to help organise collections of warm winter clothing, school supplies and personal care items to be delivered this winter to refugees in Syria.

Batool Hasan, Sexual Health Nurse, Sandyford and Fiona Noble, Planning Manager, North West Locality are involved with the charity Scottish Action for Refugees, (SAFR) which is a small, grassroots organisation based in Glasgow’s southside.

SAFR’s purpose is to provide practical assistance, both in the UK and abroad, to people fleeing their home country due to reasons of war, famine, persecution or poverty.  This year SAFR worked with its partner charity Hand in Hand for Aid and Development, who will transport the items collected in a 40ft container and distribute them as part of their winterisation programme in Syria and to support schools there.

Batool and Fiona organised collections across Glasgow and surrounding areas, and encouraged their work colleagues at Sandyford to donate much needed warm winter clothes for men, women and children, personal care and toiletries items and school supplies.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Medical Physics Department also agreed to donate decommissioned medical equipment, including a redundant anaesthesia machine, which will be repaired and distributed to hospitals and medical centres in Syria which have been damaged and destroyed by the war.

For more information about the work carried out by SAFR please visit

 www.scottishactionforrefugees.org/events