The Syrian community in the United States is not one wave, it is several stacked on top of each other. Families who arrived generations ago and built businesses in Detroit, Chicago and New Jersey. Doctors and engineers who came in the seventies and eighties. Students who came for a degree and stayed. And the most recent arrivals, still finding their footing. The time difference from Syria varies by US time zone and daylight-saving time, so planning a delivery means checking the recipient’s local time.
Jawlaha Gifts handles the local buying and delivery, so your recipient does not have to collect money and go shopping. Send the items, address and preferred delivery date in your request, then check the quote and delivery arrangements with our team before paying.
For second-generation senders, there is an extra difficulty: you may not know the shops, the streets, or how much anything should cost anymore. That is fine — you tell us what you want to arrive and roughly where, and the local knowledge comes from our side. The recipient’s address and phone number are all we actually need from you.
You can request groceries and staples for your parents, or a food basket for a family you want to support. Confirm the recipient’s details and the available items with the team before paying.
How it works
Choose what to send
In the Jawlaha app, pick the items and the shops inside Syria to buy them from, plus the recipient’s name, address and phone number — and a note for the occasion if you want one.
We send you one quote
Our team reviews the order and sends you a single all-inclusive price in Syrian pounds covering the items, the service and the delivery.
Pay by money transfer
Use the transfer method and recipient details our team confirms with your quote, then send us the transfer number and a photo of the receipt.
We buy it and deliver it
Once the transfer is confirmed, a Jawlaha driver buys everything from the shops and hands it to your family at their door inside Syria.
The price comes in Syrian pounds
You think in dollars; the quote arrives in Syrian pounds, because that is what the shopping and the delivery cost on the ground. You get one all-inclusive figure from our team before you transfer anything.
Paying by money transfer
Payment is by prepaid money transfer. Before sending money, check the available transfer method and recipient details with our team. With your quote, we confirm how to send it from the US and what details you will need. Nothing starts until the transfer is confirmed.
Occasions that matter from the USA
Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha
Sweets, new clothes for the children, or the whole holiday food shop delivered before Eid morning — sent from an evening in the US, arriving in the Syrian day.
Send a gift for Eid to Syria →Ramadan
A month of staples delivered at the start of the month, so iftar is not a calculation. Order it before Ramadan begins and it lands on time.
Send a Ramadan food basket to Syria →Syrian Mother’s Day, 21 March
Not the American one in May — Syria marks it on 21 March. Flowers, a cake or a gift arriving on the actual day carries more than the same thing arriving a week late.
Send flowers to Syria →Graduations and back to school
A gift for a nephew finishing school, or the September shopping — books, bags, shoes — arriving before term starts.
What you should know before you send
Why payment is by transfer, not by cardJawlaha Gifts currently accepts prepaid money transfers. Fulfilment starts only after we confirm receipt of the transfer.
And if the order cannot be fulfilled?We refund what you paid less the non-refundable service fee, via the same transfer method, within up to seven business days of cancellation being confirmed.
You do not have to know the person receiving itRequest a food basket for a family you want to support, with the recipient and delivery agreed with our team.
We deliver on electric bikesWherever we can: less noise, less pollution, and it costs you nothing.
A team that speaks your languageArabic and English, and the same person follows your order to the handover.
Talk to a human before you send
The first gift is always the hardest one. Write to us in Arabic or English and we will walk you through every step before you pay anything.
Where your gift arrives inside Syria
Jawlaha Gifts delivers to recipients across Syria. These cities have pages of their own, and the recipient’s city is confirmed with you order by order.
Distance does not have to mean absence
Choose what to send, and we take care of the rest inside Syria.
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Frequently asked
How do I send a gift to Syria from the USA?
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Does the time difference matter?
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I do not know the shops in my family’s city anymore — is that a problem?
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Can I send a food basket to a family I do not know?
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Sending from somewhere else?
Germany · the UK · the Netherlands · Saudi Arabia · the UAE · Qatar · Kuwait · Egypt
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