Background
As the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, Syrians brace for yet another disaster on top of the devastation caused by nine years of war. Idlib is currently the area most affected by the conflict. Daily bombing and shelling have displaced almost one million people from their homes in the space of just a few months. Currently there are approximately 189,000 displaced children in north-west Syria, of which 62,000 live in refugee camps and temporary shelters.
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unexpected, additional threat to the already extremely fragile lives of many Syrian families.
Based on global transmission rates, the Early Warning and Alert Response Network (EWARN) predicts that between 40 and 70% of the population in north-west Syria could become infected with COVID-19 – between 1.6 and 2.8 million people. But given the situation in Idlib, it’s impossible for people to combat the virus in the normal ways: how do you self-isolate in a crowded refugee camp? How do you wash your hands if there’s no soap? And how can get you get treated if the healthcare system is broken? Because since December 2019 more than 84 hospitals and medical facilities in north-west Syria have been damaged, destroyed, or forced to close their doors due to violence or mass shortages. 

In these circumstances the only possible way to combat COVID-19 in Syria is to educate refugees on good hygiene and isolation practice in the hope of slowing down and ward off contagion.
We are working to send essential sanitary packs to Idlib and distribute posters and leaflets that promote good hygiene – but we need the help of artists, illustrators and designers to create these vital visual materials. 

Design Brief
We need simple, informative and engaging visual materials that will convince children and adults to change their habits – and we need them now. Speed and quality is essential in preventing thousands of death in north-west Syria.
These images will be used in the posters and information guides we will distribute, but please consider that they could be used anywhere from leaflets to graffiti. We suggest you create the clearest, strongest visuals possible to illustrate how to combat COVID-19, and let us worry about the form of media later.

Insight
Please bear in mind that what might work elsewhere in the world won’t in Syria. As Fadi Mesaher, the Idlib Director for the Maram Foundation for Relief development said:
“You want us to wash our hands?” Some people can’t wash their kids for a week.’
Therefore we would like you to make visually simple, (info)graphic led imagery that depicts simple steps that children and adults can take to prevent the spread of COVID-19: not touching the face; washing hands with soap and water; keeping a distance of 2 metres with each other; isolating the elderly in separate tents; enforcing quarantine.

Design Specifications
Please make your files open source, and modifiable for different languages.