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IMRELIEF IN SYRIA

Country Updates - February 2025

WELCOME BACK TO YOUR HOME SYRIANS!

According to the UNHCR, 27 percent of Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt plan to return home within the next 12 months—a sharp increase from less than 2 percent recorded in April 2024. However, those returning face immense challenges, including destroyed property and a lack of infrastructure, which significantly interrupt the availability, accessibility, and affordability of food supply.

Meanwhile, nearly two million people remain in over 1,500 camps across Idlib and northern Aleppo, where ongoing safety concerns and inadequate essential services continue to hinder their return.

IMRelief is currently carrying out food distributions in Syria to overcome barriers to food access and availability. We successfully reached 40,000 people nationwide to-date, but the needs of the displaced are immense. 

Your help will propel us many steps forward toward keeping Syrian families fed and safe.

Photos from IMR Food Deliveries - JAN/FEB 2025
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Country Context

Syria is one of the top-ten countries with the highest number of hungry people. 12.9 million Syrians – more than half the population – are in the grip of hunger in 2024. 2.6 million are at risk of becoming food insecure.

The protracted conflict, combined with soaring inflation, a weakened domestic food system and continued sporadic shocks such as the disastrous earthquakes in February 2023, have brutally set back the standard of living by decades. Now, more than 70% of Syrians live in poverty. 

Roughly 6.8 million people are internally displaced, while 5.5 million have been forced out of their country.

Key Figures and Notes

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IMRelief Highlights

Food Security

IMRelief aims to provide food assistance to the most vulnerable families who have been affected by conflict, economic decline and climate change. 

IMRelief feeding campaigns are timed around seasonal spikes such as Ramadan and winterization stocks. In addition, our campaigns prioritize the following demographics: children of school-age (school meals), and infants and pregnant and nursing mothers.

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For general use, you can use this Zakat calculator in any currency. However, to compare to the "nisab" threshold, calculations are in USD.

Zakat payable is 2.5% of the wealth one possesses, only once this wealth reaches the “nisab” threshold (which is equal to 87.48 grams of 24k gold, or 612.36 grams of silver). The nisab amount listed here is based on the silver threshold and per the latest available report to IMRelief (note: This number may change daily based on gold/silver exchange rate).

Zakat is liable on gold, silver, cash, savings, investments, rent income, business merchandise and profits, shares, securities and bonds. Zakat is not paid on wealth used for debt repayment or living expenses such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, education, etc.

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Nisab threshold as of 21 February 2025 :

Silver-base (612.36 grams) –  $648

Gold-base (87.48 grams) – $8,239

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Abdullah Abuirshaid

Director of Finance

Abdallah Abuirshaid has more than 10 years’ experience in Finance and Accounting in NGOs and the private sector.

Mr. Abuirshaid has taken great strides to help better his employers implementation of new accounting systems and internal control systems, while also maintaining the budget, and ensuring that they operate according to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principle (GAAP) and IFRS.

Mr. Abuirshaid holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Yarmouk University in Jordan, and a Master’s degree in Accounting/Controllership from Strayer University.

Sawsan Gad

Chief Administration Officer

Sawsan Gad is a Geospatial Data Scientist. At IMR, she is responsible for everything technology, monitoring and evaluation, and business development. She brings in international development experience from the World Bank, United Nations, and the Egyptian Ministry of State for Administrative Development; specifically in areas of Development Data, Disaster Risk Management (DRM), and Monitoring and Supervision for Fragile and Post-conflict Countries. 

She is also a co-founder of HarassMap.org, an online platform for combatting sexual harassment. Her project was featured in the UNESCO 2020 Best Apps Created by Women for Women. Sawsan holds an M.A. in Demographic and Social Analysis from the University of California, Irvine (2008), and is a current Ph.D. student of Earth Systems and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University.

Kyrillos Wagih

Marketing Specialist

Kyrillos has joined IMRelief to lead digital marketing. Kyrillos is a digital marketing expert with 9 years of experience, specializing in content creation, digital strategy, and media buying. He has managed marketing for over 60 clients across various industries, developing a solid track record of driving growth and engagement.
Prior to joining IMR, he has worked as Senior Digital Strategist at BrandHub Agency, where his responsibilities include leading innovative strategies and managing media buying efforts to improve brand visibility and performance. 

His primary responsibility in digital marketing is to use an integrated and analytics-focused approach, ensuring that every campaign is optimized for performance and aligned with the overarching IMR’s business strategy objectives.

Heba Anees

Policy Analysis and Research Assistant

Heba is an Egyptian journalist, researcher, and human rights advocate with a diverse background in investigative journalism, audio storytelling, and advocacy. She has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to addressing critical issues related to human rights, with a particular focus on the Arab region and women’s rights. She brings to IMRelief the power of narrative and storytelling to create effective project design.

Ahmed Elprince

Controller

Ahmed Elprince has joined IMRelief as Controller, with thirteen years of varied experience in accounting, audit, treasury, corporate finance and non-profit organizations finance.

Prior to joining IMR , Ahmed served as an international financial controller at APVI, Inc. He also served as chief accountant at ADCO group, and Accounting Supervisor at Speed Group.

Earlier in his career, Ahmed worked as an accountant and senior accountant for Cell Pharma. Ahmed holds a BA degree in Finance from Tanta University in Egypt and now he is CMA.

Nausheen Ahmed

Donor Relations Specialist

With more than 10 years of experience in donor relations management, Nausheen is a results-driven professional dedicated to driving successful projects and leading high-performing teams. Prior to joining IMR, Nausheen managed donors’ communication and relationship for 10 years in international and humanitarian organizations.

Her main role was in Fundraising management with the great skills of personal solicitation, and development management at international nonprofit organizations.

Nausheen holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting  and certifications in fundraising for small nonprofits from Indiana University, and Women’s Health and Human Rights from Stanford University. 

Her leadership style emphasizes supporting and fostering collaboration and innovation within the team. Outside her professional endeavors, she enjoys soft music, movies, socializing with family and friends, and outdoor activities.

Basem Mahmoud

Program Development Consultant

Basem is an experienced program manager with long experience in managing local and international projects and programs. His experience included working with the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a leading think tank on international relations based in London; the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation, an intergovernmental entity for intercultural relations in the Euro-Mediterranean region; in addition to Washington DC office of Freedom House, Cairo office of Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and many other local civil society organizations across the region.
Basem holds an MA in conflict, security, and development from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biology from Cairo University

Shady ElGhazaly Harb

Public Policy Analyst

Shady has joined IMRelief as a public policy analyst, mainly in the health and economics sector. He graduated from Harvard Kennedy School in 2023 with a Master’s in Public Administration. The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and numerous other international publications have covered his analyses.

Concurrently, he is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Cairo University, an appointment that he has held since 2017. He was trained in liver surgery and transplantation at King’s College Hospital, London. 

Mohamed Hussein

President & CEO

Mohamed Hussein is President and CEO of the International Mission for Relief (IMRelief), where he oversees the organization’s relief and development operations and assistance programs in the countries where the organization operates.
 

Under Hussein’s leadership, IMRelief is planning to expand its humanitarian relief and development efforts to respond to humanitarian crises and meet the needs of vulnerable, refugees, IDPs, marginalized communities and people affected by wars, conflict, and disaster.  The organization’s ambitious strategy is to tackle the challenges not only from an immediate relief angle, but also through approaching relief as a pathway to resilience, by finding solutions in the local community and addressing the regulatory barriers. Additionally, the strategy of the organization is working toward introducing small but innovative interventions that can lead to multiplied benefits through economic and social impacts

Mohamed founded IMRelief in 2023, building on a long track record of self-initiative. He is currently serving as CFO to a private White House contractor (government contractor), and is a fractional CFO to a multi-billion logistics company, where he is responsible for corporate overall finance, strategy, negotiations,  and banks and investor relations. Prior, Mohamed served as a Controller at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Federal branch of USA, NBAD N.A. He also served as a COO in the relief and development sector from 2015 to 2021. He served as a senior financial analyst for Freedom House, an international NGO from 2010 to 2014. 

Earlier in his career, Mohamed worked as a senior tax and audit in the public accounting sector.

Mohamed is certified in AML (Anti-Money Laundry) and BSA (Business Standard Act), and he holds a BA degree in Finance from Tanta University in Egypt.

Mohamed’s first novel in Arabic, The High Street, was published in December 2018.