Wardet al-Mahaba [The Rose of Love] is a humanitarian organization founded in 2009 in Sweden to provide aid, health care, and child education to needy Syrian Christians, who presently live in the Hay as-Suryan district of Aleppo, Syria.

The Christian residents of Hay as-Suryan are the descendants of the Christians of the North Mesopotamian city of Edessa [Aramaic: Urhay, Turkish: Urfa]. In February 1924, they were deported from their ancestral city of Edessa after it became part of the newly formed Turkish Republic in 1922.

They were the last remaining Christians to evacuate Edessa, the city which they inhabited since the dawn of Christianity. Since then, they resettled in a refugee camp outside the city walls of Aleppo that became known as Hay as-Suryan. Now their number is nearly 1300 families.

Today, due to the ongoing violence in Aleppo and to direct rebel attacks on the humanitarian infrastructure of their Syrian Orthodox Church, more than 300 families are suffering from acute shortages in medicine, food, and other basic needs.

Therefore, our organization is collecting donations to meet these shortages of food and medicine and to provide scholarships to students, much-needed health care for those who have lost the means to support themselves. Donations are used to purchase and distribute supplies to those who need it, house to house, person to person.
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