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REGIONAL OVERVIEW
According to UNHCR 2,893,177 have now fled Syria.
More than 1.7 million of them fled in 2013 alone. In 2013, an average of more than 4,700 people fled every day.
Children make up 51% of the refugee population. There are now an estimated 1,475,520 refugee children in the region.
OUR RESPONSE
Save the Children has worked in the Middle East for decades. In July 2012 we launched an ambitious emergency appeal to respond to the growing refugee crisis in the region and are now aiming to raise 350,000,000 USD for our humanitarian interventions in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Syria, aiming to reach at least 1,700,000 people.
To date we have reached 1,387,366 people in Lebanon,
Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and Syria – approx 958,363 children.
To date we have received $300million in funding for our response in Lebanon, Jordan,
Iraq, Egypt and Syria. But with the needs growing every day, more funding is desperately needed.
Save the Children is actively coordinating with governments, UN agencies and other NGOs to respond to the humanitarian crisis.
URGENT NEEDS
Since the adoption on UNSC Resolution four months ago there has been no improvement in achieving sustained humanitarian access to people in need within Syria, particularly in hard to reach areas There has been no development on cross border assistance since the UN sought the consent of the Syrian authorities to use additional border crossings in March 2014
We Are Calling for:
-United Nations Security Council resolution 2139 on humanitarian access must be implemented immediately, to provide vaccines, food, water, medicines and other life-saving assistance.
Humanitarian organisations must have freedom of access in all areas. Aid must be allowed to cross conflict lines, enter besieged areas through humanitarian pauses if necessary and cross borders where this is the most direct route.
-Governments to use their leadership to push all parties to the conflict to agree not to prevent life-saving aid from reaching all children in need and agree to humanitarian pauses, using all the most efficient routes; across conflict lines and borders