"Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiatives", "UNHCR" and "Food Banks" cooperate to alleviate the impact of winter on the needy
The UAE’s humanitarian relief is mitigating the repercussions of the winter season for 100,000 families
In the cold winter, the poorest families are forced to provide warmth at the expense of food and medicine.
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It is hard to imagine that 3.8 million refugees and internally displaced persons in the Middle East, and millions of destitute families in Africa, live in tragic conditions in the face of one of the coldest winters in the region, as those in refugee-hosting countries in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq face temperatures as high as Below zero, as it is difficult to imagine a child sheltering in a dilapidated tent, searching in the midst of floods, storms and snow for some warmth. Imagine that the harsh conditions push the father of a family to make very difficult decisions, up to the point of accepting reducing meals for his family, and sacrificing the importance of medicine, in order to secure some The additional costs of heating his children, and insulating their dwelling, which is a tent or a single unheated room, that shelters them, in a neighborhood or camp with dilapidated buildings, freezing cold, frost and floods!
From this standpoint, came the campaign “Let’s Make Their Winter Warmer”, which was launched by the “The Most Beautiful Winter in the World” campaign, in partnership with “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives”, “UNHCR” and “Regional Network of Food Banks”. And in cooperation with the Arab content creator, Hassan Suleiman, known as “Abu Fella”, which aims to provide the largest amount of aid and support the largest number of refugee families and disadvantaged communities in the region in the winter season, by 100,000 families, to be able to face and bear The difficult winter conditions in the Arab world, or those facing poor living conditions in Africa, in order to enhance the concept of humanitarian work in society, and to devote it as a permanent approach in the UAE, which has become a global platform for humanitarian work.
Many refugee and displaced families, both internally and externally, depend on the assistance provided by UNHCR, to be able to secure warmth and safety, and to meet the needs of their children in terms of shelter, food and nutrition. This is why UNHCR has launched a winter aid plan for the 3.8 million refugees and displaced people in the region.
Without urgent donations, many would not be able to stay safe and warm during the colder months.
For many, this will be the tenth consecutive winter that falls far from home, as families face even more difficult conditions that have pushed them into extreme poverty, making them more vulnerable than before.
UNHCR works in 130 countries to provide protection and assistance, support refugees and host communities to adapt, and find solutions in an increasingly harsh climate. Around the world, the threshold of 84 million people will be reached in 2021.
According to UNHCR figures, more than 1.2 million Iraqis remained internally displaced until the end of 2020, and there were more than 280,000 refugees or asylum seekers in Iraq, including 242,000 Syrians, and women constituted 48% of the total number of refugees in Iraq.
In its report on Syrian refugees issued last March, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that half of the Syrians have become refugees and displaced persons, 10 years after the outbreak of the conflict in their country.
She noted that more than 13 million Syrians need humanitarian assistance and protection, while 12.4 million people (60% of the total population) suffer from food shortages.
She called on the international community to redouble collective efforts to support Syrian refugees and the communities hosting them.
As for Lebanon, which in turn suffers from difficult economic conditions, which have increased the challenges facing Syrian refugees on its soil, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is cooperating with the World Food Program and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to confront what it describes as “the rapid deterioration in the situation in Lebanon.” The living conditions of Syrian refugees,” the three agencies assert, “almost all of them are now unable to provide the minimum expenditure necessary to ensure survival.”
Refugees struggle to find decent and safe shelter in Lebanon;
About 60% of Syrian refugee families live in vulnerable, substandard or overcrowded housing.
Two-thirds of families have had to reduce the size of the food portions or reduce the number of meals consumed per day.
The World Food Program currently assists more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees and 600,000 Lebanese nationals per month by providing cash assistance and food rations.
In Jordan, the UNHCR allocated about $35 million in 2021 as “winter aid that constitutes real warmth” for refugees before entering the winter season, and Jordan has hosted more than 1.3 million Syrians since the beginning of the crisis in 2011, including 669,922 refugees registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. United States until August 17, 2021.
United Nations figures on the situation of displaced people and refugees in the world indicate that the scale of the tragedy today means that more than 1% of the world’s population has been subjected to forced displacement, with which they almost certainly lost the ability to return to their homes, especially with the turmoil that the world witnessed in the past two years. Climate and painful repercussions of the (Covid-19) epidemic.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, expressed this reality by saying in an earlier statement that forced displacement has become a reality, and is no longer a temporary and short-term phenomenon, and that millions of people who are outside their homes cannot continue to live in turmoil for years. successively, without a chance to return home, and no hope of building a future for themselves where they found them.
The most dangerous thing about the phenomenon of refugees and internally displaced persons is its threat to the future of entire generations. There are no less than 374 million displaced or displaced children, including many unaccompanied, equivalent, for example, to the total population of Australia, Denmark and Mongolia combined.
80% of displaced people around the world live in countries or territories affected by food insecurity and acute malnutrition – and many of these countries face risks related to climate and other disasters.
• “Let's make their winter warmer” addresses the human side of the public in the region and the world.
• 3.8 million refugees and displaced persons in the Middle East, and millions of destitute families in Africa live in tragic conditions.
The “Covid-19” pandemic has thrown millions under the extreme poverty line
In addition to the convoys of refugees and forcibly displaced people around the world, the “Covid-19” pandemic has cast a shadow on the global economy, causing an increase in extreme poverty rates in the world in 2020, for the first time in more than 20 years, and the World Bank estimates that the “Pandemic” Corona” pushed up to 150 million people into extreme poverty in 2021. The World Bank stresses that the combination of the “Covid-19” pandemic, the pressures of conflict and climate change, will make achieving the goal of eliminating poverty by 2030 unattainable.
Although less than 10% of the world's population lives on less than $1.90 a day, nearly a quarter of the world's population lives below the $3.20 poverty line, and more than 40% of the world's population lives - roughly 3.3 Billions - below the poverty line of $5.50 per person per day.
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