Along with Amer Hijazi, president of the AAPS, testimonials will be given by Raed Alsaleh, the director of Cascos Blancos; Ahmad Youssef, a volunteer for Cascos Blancos; Halil Resuloglu, president of the Syrian NGO Sham el Jair; Mohamad Alskaf, manager of humanitarian aid for Sham el Jair, and Ignacio Álvarez Ossorio, a professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante and the Middle East and Maghreb Coordinator for Fundación Alternativas. The event will be presented by Karim Hauser, who is responsible for Governability at Casa Árabe.

The Association of Support for the Syrian People (AAPS) is the only Spanish NGO that sends humanitarian aid on a regular basis to the interior of Syria, and it works with the cooperation of other NGOs and associations in the field so that the sending of humanitarian aid will be effective and reach those who need it most.

Two of these associations are Cascos Blancos (nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016) and Sham El Jair, both formed by Syrian civilians. The people who volunteer for these organizations have been capable of demonstrating society’s humanity in the midst of this cruel conflict. This is why the AAPS would like to help Spanish society hear their testimony, so as to increase the visibility of their work and increase awareness about the situation which the Syrian civilian population is enduring inside the country.