Name: 【TED】Rola Hallam: The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria (The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria | Rola Hallam)
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"Five hospitals in Aleppo have been bombed."

That was a text message that I received on a dark winter night in November 2016.

at the Independent Doctors Association, IDA.

It was the sixth time it had been bombed.

I watched in horror heartbreaking footage of the head nurse, Malak,

grabbing premature babies out of their incubators,

Fellow humanitarians and I have spent blood, sweat and tears

And through this work, I made a discovery.

is because of the remarkable work of the people in crisis themselves.

People survive because of the local doctors, nurses and aid workers

who are from the very heart of the affected community,

the people who dare to work where others can't or won't.

People survive because of people like Malak,

who, despite sustaining a severe burns injury in the line of duty,

the first thing she did when discharged from hospital

was to go back caring for small children.

arise the most gallant and noble human beings.

Local humanitarians are the beacons of light

Now, the data shows that Syrian organizations carry out

75 percent of the humanitarian work in Syria.

Yet, they receive 0.3 percent of the Syria aid budget.

And what's more, the same is happening across the crises of the world.

It means those with the knowledge, skill and ability

have little of the necessary tools, equipment and resources

It means groups like IDA don't have funds to rebuild their hospital.

The humanitarian system is failing the most vulnerable communities

Now, at the time of receiving that message,

I was on sabbatical from my clinical work,

a start-up determined to address this imbalance

and enable local responders to provide health care

source trusted and impactful local groups,

support their development through an accelerator program

and connect them to you via our crowdfunding platform,

where they can fund-raise for their health needs.

I decided to launch CanDo seven months early,

and many people, including myself, thought I had finally gone mad.

I wanted to do something that transformed our collective anger

And that's how the People's Convoy was born.

to enable IDA to rebuild a whole new children's hospital,

and, if successful, we the people would take the medical equipment

all the way from London to the Syria border.

Thousands of people came together from across the world

we built the first-ever crowdfunded hospital.

The location was carefully chosen by the local experts, IDA,

and serve the greatest number of displaced children.

and they have treated over 15,000 children.

We can provide lifesaving assistance in the most volatile places on earth.

and change starts with us all sharing a new humanitarian vision,

one where you, global citizens with skills, expertise and resources,

stand together with the local responders;

putting the necessary resources in the hands of those who need them most

and are best placed to use them effectively and efficiently.

We need to support the people who are not only saving lives now,

but it will also be them stitching their wounded communities back together,

once a conflict is over to help them heal.

Local humanitarians have the courage to persist,

and to start again, risking their lives to save others.

And we can match their courage by not looking away or turning our backs,

by helping those who are helping themselves,

So, Physicians for Human Rights have documented

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