With so much fighting going on in Syria, these women will certainly come in handy to help the wounded.
Syria's First Responders Welcome Female Recruits
April 8, 2015
by Flaminia Giambalvo
In Syria's most conservative communities, people have refused to let male volunteers rescue women and girls—but women have intervened to help those who wouldn't have been helped otherwise. All photos courtesy of the Syrian Civil Defense
From October to December 2014, the Idlib Governorate in northern Syria endured 60 days of air raids. Bombs dropped by the regime of Bashar al Assad transformed entire neighborhoods into piles of rubble, trapping civilians underneath the concrete and steel that had once been their homes and workplaces. The Syrian Civil Defense (SCD), a group of nurses, firefighters, and first responders, were always the first ones on the scene, triaging victims and helping to transport them to local hospitals.
An airstrike launched in July 2014 on the Idlib district of Maarat al Numan left dozens of civilians injured, many of whom were trapped under the bloodstained cement. "A woman was stuck underneath a collapsed roof," said Ebaa, a lithe 20-year-old woman with deep, dark eyes who is now one of three women working for the SCD in this rural area. "Her clothes were torn, and she was embarrassed by the presence of men." Ebaa and her team extracted her and quickly stabilized her on the back of an old pickup truck. "Her life depended on us [women] being there," Ebaa told me.
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Syria's First Responders Welcome Female Recruits
April 8, 2015
by Flaminia Giambalvo
In Syria's most conservative communities, people have refused to let male volunteers rescue women and girls—but women have intervened to help those who wouldn't have been helped otherwise. All photos courtesy of the Syrian Civil Defense
From October to December 2014, the Idlib Governorate in northern Syria endured 60 days of air raids. Bombs dropped by the regime of Bashar al Assad transformed entire neighborhoods into piles of rubble, trapping civilians underneath the concrete and steel that had once been their homes and workplaces. The Syrian Civil Defense (SCD), a group of nurses, firefighters, and first responders, were always the first ones on the scene, triaging victims and helping to transport them to local hospitals.
An airstrike launched in July 2014 on the Idlib district of Maarat al Numan left dozens of civilians injured, many of whom were trapped under the bloodstained cement. "A woman was stuck underneath a collapsed roof," said Ebaa, a lithe 20-year-old woman with deep, dark eyes who is now one of three women working for the SCD in this rural area. "Her clothes were torn, and she was embarrassed by the presence of men." Ebaa and her team extracted her and quickly stabilized her on the back of an old pickup truck. "Her life depended on us [women] being there," Ebaa told me.
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Syria s First Responders Welcome Female Recruits VICE United Kingdom
