REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - An NGO from Indonesia, Fast Response Action (ACT), will build a bread factory in Aleppo, Syria, to contain food shortage problem. Chairman of ACT, Doddy Cleveland said bread factories in the area were destroyed by bomb attack loyalist forces of President Bashar al-Assad.

Cleveland said ACT tried to distribute basic goods to refugees and communities around Aleppo. They have shared food packages to 1,655 families, distributed three times a week and has been operating for a month.

One package contains of basic foodstuffs, such as wheat, rice, olives, sugar and canned foods which were distributed to 12 shelters. ACT also prepares foods for children, consist of five thousand packages of milk and vitamins. In Manbej, a town near Aleppo, ACT has sent 300 food packages for 400 refugees every day.

"We have made human shelters called ACT Food for Syria, in Aleppo and Manbej. ACT will also build refugee camps in Kilis, Turkey-Syria border. We focus on humanitarian action and strive to help provide food and health care for refugees," Cleveland said recently.

ACT will also check some hospitals in Aleppo if they need paramedics. If necessary, ACT attempts to send some doctors as volunteers. Cleveland is already one week in Syria. He went to Aleppo through immigration gate in Karkamis (Turkey), then enter Syria via Gaziantep.

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