Higher Committee for Relief: SYP 120 million to be distributed to 140 NGOs by the End of this Year

Participants in the meeting of the Higher Committee for Relief discussed on Thursday what has been implemented in the field of humanitarian aid last week concerning the affected families at the temporary residential centers and elsewhere.

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Chairman of the Higher Committee for Relief, Jassem Mohammad Zakaria, stressed that SYP 120 million will be distributed to 140 NGOs by the end of the current year to help them fulfill the basic needs of the affected families at the temporary residential centers and elsewhere,

He added that the Committee is following up the situation of the affected families in all provinces in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and a number of international organizations.

Minister of State for the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Affairs, Joseph Sweid, said that work is in progress to overcome the difficulties which curb the delivery of aid convoys to the affected families in cooperation with the authorities concerned.

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