The Narlica Association initiative has been formed during Ramadan of 2012, when community volunteers began preparing iftar dinners for needy families. These efforts soon expanded, and today the Association is a thriving charity, with modest funding from Turkish and regional philanthropies that provides the refugees in Narlica with a range of services including health care, food aid and vocational training. It is the only NGO operating in the district, which is home to the greatest concentration of Syrian refugees in the city. Syrian associational life is similarly vibrant in Lebanon, which has taken in the second largest number of refugees.

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Turkey vocational education refugee nongovernmental organization health care Syrian Arab Republic Lebanon food aid