Participants in WFP Workshop Urge Lifting Economic Siege on Syria to Help Syrians Rebuild Their Country

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DAMASCUS, (ST)-The World Food Program (WFP) on Wednesday held a consultative workshop to discuss the program’s agenda in Syria for 2017-2018.

 Participants focused on the importance of lifting the unfair economic siege imposed on the Syrians and of stopping the flow of terrorists into Syria in order to help the Syrian people rebuild their country.

 They affirmed the need to depend on the government’s statistics regarding the Syrians targeted by WFP assistance in order to specify the kind of aid they need.

The participants called for expanding, increasing and diversifying the assistance to cover the domains of health, education and medicines. They urged focus on micro and small-sized enterprises, particularly in Damascus Countryside and Sweida provinces where a large number of families live including displaced and terrorism-affected families.

The WFP was also urged to direct its efforts towards the economic empowerment of affected families by helping them get jobs and start production to improve their income.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Ahmad Qadish called for concentrating on distributing production tools, while the Deputy Minister of Water Resources Osama al-Akhras urged contribution to restarting food production and rehabilitating the government irrigation network for this purpose.

Deputy Minister of Local Administration and Environment Luai Kharita called for carrying out development projects, provide relief aid to needy families and implement income-generating enterprises.   

On her part, Thurayya Idlebi, Deputy head of the Planning and International Cooperation Commission, said the extraordinary circumstances caused by the terrorist war against Syria necessitates that the priorities of the international organizations’ programs and projects should be arranged according to humanitarian needs.

In a statement to SANA, the Country Director for the WFP in Syria Jakob Kern said that the program’s new strategy in Syria aims at creating job opportunities and encouraging food production by the targeted categories.”

He added the WFP budget for Syria is estimated at 700 million USD, hoping that the program will get an increase to support its activities.

Hamda Mustafa

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