Medecins Sans Frontieres and Syria

CTV News Channel: While in Syria, Sidani recalls a mother bringing in her seven-day old baby to be vaccinated, according to CTV. When Sidani removed the rags that covered the infant, she said she was shocked to see the baby body was covered in plastic. "Not because the is ignorant, but because the water seeps from the top and bottom of the tent, and that the only way to keep the baby dry," Sidani told CTV News Channel on Monday. "There are many instances which made me ashamed of humanity and the atrocities of war," she continued. Between 2012 and 2014, she joined humanitarian missions with Medecins Sans Frontieres , where she spent time in Yemen, Lebanon and three months in Syria. She said the vast majority of the people she encountered led very normal lives before the brutal civil war broke out in 2011. "They are people like you and me, who before the war had a life, had a livelihood, who contributed to the country economy," she said. "They got stuck in a very brutal war." In the country of 23 million, more than four million Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries while another 6.5 million are displaced inside the country, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. In the meantime, many of the displaced Syrians are living in dire conditions in the camps. "People are living in temperatures between 4C and 5C," she said. "These are the temperatures we use to preserve meat and cheese in our fridges. Sidani said many of the Syrians she encountered were holding out hope of one day returning to their homes. "They still have hope that one day they can go back and rebuild whatever has been and restart the life they have always known," she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.