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In and around Syria the biggest humanitarian disaster since the genocide in Rwanda is taking place. More than 9 million people from which half are children fled their houses because of the civil war. The refugee camps lack basic facilities like food, proper shelter, medical care and electricity. In a refugee camp life stops when it gets dark. With one WakaWaka one whole family has light to cook, read, make homework and go outside safely. On top of that WakaWaka\u2019s enable the refugees to charge their cellphone so they can stay in touch with the outside world.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Syrian refugees I spoke with told me how well the WakaWaka\u2019s work and how essential they are in their daily life\u2019<\/em> says Tineke Ceelen, director of Stichting Vluchteling. The last months Stichting Vluchteling and other organizations distributed 26.000 WakaWaka\u2019s in Syria. Because of the success of the Solar for Syria campaign 5000 WakaWaka’s can be added to this amount.<\/p>\n

In and around Syria the biggest humanitarian disaster since the genocide in Rwanda is taking place. More than 9 million people from which half are children fled their houses because of the civil war. The refugee camps lack basic facilities like food, proper shelter, medical care and electricity. In a refugee camp life stops when it gets dark. With one WakaWaka one whole family has light to cook, read, make homework and go outside safely. On top of that WakaWaka\u2019s enable the refugees to charge their cellphone so they can stay in touch with the outside world.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Syrian refugees I spoke with told me how well the WakaWaka\u2019s work and how essential they are in their daily life\u2019<\/em> says Tineke Ceelen, director of Stichting Vluchteling. The last months Stichting Vluchteling and other organizations distributed 26.000 WakaWaka\u2019s in Syria. Because of the success of the Solar for Syria campaign 5000 WakaWaka’s can be added to this amount.<\/p>\n

\u2018Earlier campaigns showed that the \u2018Buy One \u2013 Give One\u2019 offer is the best way to collect WakaWaka\u2019s for emergency response\u2019<\/em> according to Maurits Groen . For every WakaWaka sold through the Solar for Syria campaign one WakaWaka is given to the Syrian refugees. In this way, large amounts of WakaWaka\u2019s bought by companies like Essent and Accenture will impact the lives of thousands of Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

Walking chargers<\/strong>
Every year, Stichting Vluchteling organizes the Night of the Refugee. This year 1200 people will walk the 40 kilometers from Rotterdam to The Hague to collect money and raise awareness for the Syrian refugees. A WakaWaka team is walking along with WakaWaka Powers on their back. This allows other walkers to charge their phone or mp3 player during the walk.<\/p>\n

More about the campaign, background information about the situation in Syria, personal stories of the refugees and photo and video reports from the refugee camps can be found at www.solarforsyria.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Earlier campaigns showed that the \u2018Buy One \u2013 Give One\u2019 offer is the best way to collect WakaWaka\u2019s for emergency response\u2019<\/em> according to Maurits Groen . For every WakaWaka sold through the Solar for Syria campaign one WakaWaka is given to the Syrian refugees. In this way, large amounts of WakaWaka\u2019s bought by companies like Essent and Accenture will impact the lives of thousands of Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

Walking chargers<\/strong>
Every year, Stichting Vluchteling organizes the Night of the Refugee. This year 1200 people will walk the 40 kilometers from Rotterdam to The Hague to collect money and raise awareness for the Syrian refugees. A WakaWaka team is walking along with WakaWaka Powers on their back. This allows other walkers to charge their phone or mp3 player during the walk.<\/p>\n

More about the campaign, background information about the situation in Syria, personal stories of the refugees and photo and video reports from the refugee camps can be found at www.solarforsyria.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a successful campaign of WakaWaka, thousands of Syrian refugees will have light and the ability to charge their cellphone.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSolar For Syria: 5262 WakaWakas | WakaWaka\u00ae - Go Solar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/waka-waka.com\/en\/2014\/05\/solar-syria-5262-wakawakas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Solar For Syria: 5262 WakaWakas | WakaWaka\u00ae - 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