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Rome, Italy, Sep 9, 2012 \/ 04:40 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Caritas Internationalis is ramping up its efforts to help the growing number of Syrian families who have fled the conflict in their homeland.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWithin Syria, Caritas is distributing food,\u201d said Laura Sheahan of Caritas told CNA. \u201cIt\u2019s been a little hard in terms of cooked food because it\u2019s difficult to even get fuel in Syria, but we\u2019re providing things like sandwiches. Meanwhile, Boy Scouts are distributing some of the food in places like Aleppo and Homs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCaritas Internationalis is the Catholic Church\u2019s confederation of charitable and development agencies. Overall, it is helping more than 13,000 Syrians affected by the present crisis.
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\n\tThe armed revolt against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, which began in March 2011, shows no sign of abating.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn Jordan, we are providing a number of services: food, medical care, things like diapers and blankets. So, Caritas Jordan is providing these emergency items to families who have just shown up in the country with nothing,\u201d explained Sheahan.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn Lebanon, we\u2019re also providing things like food and blankets, but also we have a sort of roving medical van.\u00a0 The doctor goes around in this big white van and takes care of Syrian refugee children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe United Nations refugee agency estimates that nearly 250,000 Syrians have now fled to the neighboring countries of Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq. Meanwhile it is thought there are more than 1.2 million internally displaced people in Syria, with 2.5million in need of humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n

\tSheahan recently visited both Lebanon and Jordan to witness the Syrian refugee crisis first hand. There she found \u201cfamilies who had basically fled for their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThey were fleeing bombs, shootings in the streets, sniper attacks. These were people who for months had been hiding in their houses afraid even to go out for groceries, even doing that was hard. They were keeping their kids home from school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cFinally,\u201d she said, \u201cthey just gave up and realized that they were in danger\u201d and so \u201cby bus, by car or even on foot they went to neighboring countries like Lebanon and Jordan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBehind the statistics and logistics, Sheahan said she also found many individual stories that brought home the personal tragedy of the present situation for thousands of Syrians.<\/p>\n

\tAt the Caritas Center in Jordan she met a Syrian woman with a badly wounded leg.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHer neighbor had gone out to get milk for her family. She had wanted to go out and get milk. Her neighbor said, \u2018No, it\u2019s too dangerous.\u2019 He got shot by a sniper and when she went out to help him, she was shot. She survived, he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

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