How the United Nations time will they be able to continue to care for refugees from the war in Syria? The issue is extremely serious, concerned humanitarian aid organizations. Thirty of them have called on rich countries to accommodate 5% of these refugees before the end of 2015.
Meanwhile UNHCR sees its reduced means:
"The global humanitarian needs are increasing exponentially, says Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the funds available to respond at all do not increase at the same rate. Not only we have less money for more needs, but how we can use this money to meet these needs is becoming more restricted. "
Last week the World Food Programme has created astonishment by announcing that he was no longer able to distribute food stamps 1.7 million Syrians refugees in neighboring countries.
"These are critical food stamps, said Amine, a refugee. If there are more, then there is no refuge ... How will we live, no job, no nothing? "
Today Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and especially Lebanon and Turkey are struggling under the weight of refugees.
For some despair is total:
"We can stay like this a little longer, says a man. But then I'm going back to my country. If I get killed by a shell there, I will die as a martyr. But it's better than starving. "
Some refugees will live their fourth winter in a camp away from home. A tragedy in the center of the Geneva Conference that begins Tuesday.
