Amid the increasing challenges, the UN Refugee Agency in Syria was quick to mobilize its resources to respond to urgent needs for families in the besieged city of Moadamiyeh city in Rural Damascus and to residents of al-Waer and Talbisah in Homs.
September 25, 2016
Amid the increasing challenges, the UN Refugee Agency in Syria was quick to mobilize its resources to respond to urgent needs for families in the besieged city of Moadamiyeh city in Rural Damascus and to residents of al-Waer and Talbisah in Homs.
On a course of two stages on 22nd and 24th of September, UNHCR teams together with Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers and teams from the UN sister agencies working in Syria delivered humanitarian life-saving assistance composed of relief items and medical supplies for around 12,000 families.
“We were hoping and we are still hoping that the cessation of hostilities was and is something that can be shown as a concrete result for the Syrian people.”, said the UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura following the Ministerial meeting on Syria in New York, 22th September.
In parallel, last week, four aid convoys made its way to people in need in the besieged Talbisah and al-Waer districts in Homs. The aid delivered of 76 trucks including relief items, hygiene kits, water and sanitation and medical supplies cover the needs of 117 thousand individuals.
Since the beginning of 2016, the UN and partners successfully delivered multi-sectoral assistance through inter-agency operations, reaching over 1.2 million civilians in besieged, hard-to-reach and other priority cross-line locations with dire humanitarian needs. Many of these people were reached more than once. A total of 82 inter-agency convoys have been undertaken.
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