(MENAFN- Morocco World News) The European Commission announced Wednesday the launch of new projects worth over 200 million to support up to one million refugees fleeing the war in Syria and to their host communities in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
The aid was approved at the fourth board meeting of the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis. “The EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis allows us to deliver support rapidly and effectively to those in need,” said the EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, adding that “in just over one year, the Fund has mobilized more than 730 million from EU Member States, the EU budget and Turkey.” Today’s package includes 165 million for actions in Turkey, which will support education, including school construction and higher education for young Syrians, and extend water and waste-water facilities in southern Turkey, 21 million to rehabilitate the overstretched water networks in northern Jordan, where most of the Syrian refugees reside, and 15 million to allow UNRWA to provide urgent education services and cash assistance to thousands of Palestinian refugees from Syria who have now fled to Lebanon and Jordan. The EU is the leading donor in the international response to the Syrian crisis, with over 6.5 billion from the EU and Member States mobilized collectively in humanitarian, development, economic and stabilization assistance since 2011.
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