04.06.2015, International Business Times

Libanon: Refugees must help themselves

In the absence of sufficient funding from aid organizations, Syrian refugees in Lebanon have looked for alternative methods of raising money. The methods they have created to help each other range from fundraising through social media to opening privately-owned refugee camps, many of which have ties to governments in the Gulf region. The government is overwhelmed by an influx equal to almost 50 percent of the Lebanese population. Many of Lebanon’s estimated 2 million Syrian refugees receive no aid at all. Meanwhile, the United Nations refugee organization is at the end of its rope, without enough money to cover its budget for refugees in Lebanon. read more

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