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Charity organisations pledge $400m for Syrians affected by war | ||||
2014-01-15 | ||||
Charity organisations pledged $400 million on Tuesday to help alleviate the humanitarian plight of Syrians affected by their countryÂ’s civil war, participants at a meeting of charitable NGOs said.
The funds will target people inside and outside Syria, where more than 130,000 people have been killed and millions displaced during the 34-month conflict, IICO said in a statement cited by the KUNA news agency. At a similar meeting last year, NGOs pledged $182 million for Syrian refugees.
The United Nations has described the appeal as the largest ever in its history for a single humanitarian emergency.
The UN has said it needs $2.3 billion to support 9.3 million people inside Syria and $4.2 billion for refugees, expected to nearly double to 4.1 million by yearÂ’s end. Ahead of his arrival in Kuwait, Ban warned that the humanitarian situation in Syria has been deteriorating and called on donor nations to help meet the target. At the first donors conference in Kuwait last January, participating nations pledged $1.5 billion, 75 per cent of which was delivered, according to a Kuwaiti official. Aid agencies say 10.5 million Syrians are food insecure or severely food insecure, over a million children under five suffer from acute or severe malnutrition, about half the population has no access to adequate water sources or sanitation facilities and 8.6 million have insufficient access to healthcare. Lebanon is currently hosting the largest number of refugees with 905,000, followed by Jordan with 575,000, Turkey 562,000, Iraq 216,000 and Egypt 145,000. By the end of 2014, these numbers are estimated to rise to 1.65 million in Lebanon, 800,000 in Jordan, 1.0 million in Turkey, 400,000 in Iraq and 250,000 in Egypt.
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Posted by:Steve White |
#2 From Where? |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-01-15 17:45 |
#1 I gave at the office. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-15 05:38 |