The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has called on donors to urgently obtain $13 million in funding to continue its support for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philip Lazzarini said in a statement: "UNRWA is urgently appealing for $13 million for Palestine refugees in Lebanon," noting that "this funding will enable the agency to provide much-needed cash assistance and continue to provide services. Primary health care, and keeping our schools open until the end of the year.”
     
He explained that "unprecedented levels of poverty, extremely high unemployment rates, and increasing degrees of desperation have negatively affected the Lebanese and the Palestinian and Syrian refugees alike."
Source: agencies