Youth teams in Niño .. Volunteers return life to Mosul

Ahmed Al-Dabbagh-Mosul

Saad Hamdi spends his days supervising the construction teams that are rebuilding the destroyed city of the Old City. His project began with the "Volunteer With Us" campaign immediately after the end of the military operations in Mosul in July 2017.

Hamdi, who began his campaign with a number of young people who began to distribute food baskets, fuel and blankets to the families of the disaster that emerged from the war in the old Mosul area.

Hamdi told Al Jazeera.net that after a period of public activity, his campaign began to select families of orphans and widows to help them.

Over time, the campaign turned to the reconstruction of damaged homes and schools in the Old City, and so far has managed to reconstruct more than 54 houses and four schools.

Founder of "Volunteer with Us" campaign, said that they did not receive any government support. Their work depends on local donors and the Arab countries, pointing out that their campaign is continuing to rebuild the damaged houses and bring them back to a better place.

With the same determination, the campaign is "more beautiful." Mohammed Masoud points out that the campaign was the result of a youth appeal through social media to restore life to Mosul.

One of the participants in the establishment of the campaign pointed out in his speech to Al Jazeera Net that their first activity was cleaning the Al-Khansaa Women's and Children's Hospital.

With the effort of 100 young people in the campaign, the campaign was able to reopen the hospital, as well as cleaning about forty schools in Mosul, cleaning and painting several colleges at the University of Mosul.

Over the course of the days, "the most beautiful" has been able to extend new water networks to the old city, and the campaign has recently focused on the restoration of destroyed houses.

small projects
The founder of the project, "Nineveh first" Ahmed al-Mallah of the island Net that the first activities were with the start of military operations in eastern Mosul, they were able to enter the first convoy food to the area of ​​Sada and Baouiza (east of the city).

This was followed by the processing of 34 food convoys to various areas of Mosul. The navigator described that effort as a relief under fire.

Since its inception, Nineveh I has been able to equip nine medical convoys, including medicines and medical equipment, for medical centers opened in the liberated areas.

As for the continuity of the campaign, the navigator revealed that their efforts resulted in the opening of sixty small projects (Bab Rizk).

The campaign also managed to train 250 young men and women in different occupations, planting more than 1,000 trees in Mosul last year, in addition to guaranteeing a large number of orphans, and the navigator confirmed that their work will continue this year with new projects.

Revolution of the Dnieper
"Revolution, but not all revolutions." With these words, Bandar al-Akeidi describes the Danbar revolution in the old city of Mosul.

The Danber is a small transport vehicle (one ton) used in construction, and can enter the narrow alleys, which made it the best way to remove the rubble, according to Akidi.

Despite the limited support, the campaign was able to lift 21 thousand tons of rubble, compared to $ 2 per cubic meter.

Al-Akeidi, who founded the Dnabre Revolution a year ago, assured Al-Jazeera Net that their youth campaign had helped clean up many alleys in the Old City.

He pointed out that the coverage of the means of communication for their campaign contributed to obtain more material and moral support.

Mohammed Ramadan, a resident of the Old City, returned to his home after youth campaigns helped clean the alleys of his home and extend water networks.

Ramadan stresses that the youthful effort in Mosul reflected a beautiful image of the extent to which the Muslinians insisted on returning their city to its former state.

For his part, believes the head of the Commission for Services and Reconstruction in the Nineveh province Abdul Rahman al-Waka'a that the will of the people of the city and civil society organizations and the local government made the city to rise so quickly.

Al-Waka'a asserts to Al-Jazeera Net that the youth campaigns have a clear impact on the restoration of the city and its institutions.