LATAKIA (Sputnik) – The children and their teachers received individual food rations, canned fish and meat sugar, flour, powdered milk and cereals. Students also received sweets and biscuits. The Russian military doctors also launched a mobile medical center to administer aid to those who need it.
"Overall, more than 2.5 tonnes of humanitarian cargos to these childcare facilities," Vitaly Verbitsky told reporters.
He added that the reconciliation center was also working with the Latakia administration and authorities of other cities to carry out effective humanitarian policies.
The Russian servicemen delivered about 1.2 metric ton (1.3 US tons) of humanitarian aid to the Jenderia settlement of the Syrian province of Latakia, another spokesman for the Russian reconciliation center said Saturday.
"We brought 1 tonne and 200 kilograms of food for this center for refugees. As many as 150 individual food rations and 100 humanitarian packages with sugar, pasta, canned fish and meat and tea," Pavel Barinov told reporters.
According to the spokesman, Jenderia became the 76th settlement in Syria where Russian servicemen delivered aid.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN agencies and partners have delivered aid to over 780,000 civilians in besieged and hard-to-reach areas of Syria since the beginning of 2016.
