Community Corner
Fundraiser to Aid Assyrian Refugees
Local organizations want to help about 1,000 families to return to Iraq while Syria's civil war lashes on.
Local Assyrian-churches and organizations are holding a fundraiser on Sunday to aid families that are caught in the crossfire of war-torn Syria, the Daily News reports.
About 1,000 Assyrian families are living at the Syrian border, waiting to return to Iraq. Half a million Assyrians migrated to Syria after the Second Gulf War broke out in 2003.
But now the violence between rebels and the Syrian government is forcing many to want to return to Iraq.
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"The war is impacting Syrians and non-Syrians alike, but the Christian condition in the Middle East is getting worse," Sargoun Issa, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Assyrian Aid Society. told the Daily News. "Now they are going back, but they don't have anything. They lost everything. We as the Assyrian Aid Society have the responsibility to bring awareness to this condition and to try to collect humanitarian aid for these families."
The fundraiser is being held 5 p.m. at the Assyrian American Association, 5839 Cahuenga Blvd., North Hollywood.
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