AMMAN —
US Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman announced that the US,
through the USAID, is providing $55 million in additional food assistance for
Jordan’s Syria crisis response, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
اضافة اعلان
In a statement issued on Thursday, USAID
said that the new assistance will help its partner, the
World Food Program (WFP), meet the emergency food needs of more than 460,000 Syrian refugees,
providing cash-based assistance for families to purchase food in Jordanian
stores, which will, in turn, support the local economy.
“The US remains the largest humanitarian aid donor to the Syria response, and has provided nearly $16 billion in humanitarian assistance throughout Syria and the region since the start of the conflict.”
"Since the start of the war in Syria
nearly 12 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have crossed into
neighboring Jordan to seek refuge from the conflict. As of March 2023, Jordan
hosts more than 670,000 registered Syrian refugees, the
third-largest population of Syrian refugees in the world,” the statement read. “With support
from USAID, WFP provides critical food assistance to 460,000 at-risk Syrian and
other refugees in Jordan each month.”
Donors
supporting the Syrian peopleThe US remains the largest humanitarian aid
donor to the Syria response, and has provided nearly $16 billion in
humanitarian assistance throughout Syria and the region since the start of the
conflict, the statement noted.
The US urged other donors to support the
Syrian people given the scale and urgency of needs and the outstanding funding
gaps.
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