Alaa al-Din Obeid, an orphanage located in Azaz, near Aleppo and the Turkish border, serves seven hundred Syrian boys and girls. Reported as the only children's on the northern countryside of Aleppo, the facility is becoming overcrowded, with 300 boys live permanently in the orphanage hopes to build a special residental ward for girls. The orphanage director reports a need for additional services and professionals to care for the growing number of children traumatized by the war in Syria.
