Belgium allocates additional humanitarian aid to Jordan

Belgium’s Minister of Development Cooperation Alexander De Croo on Monday allocated an additional 4 million euro in humanitarian aid for the hosting of Syrian war refugees in Jordan. 

He announced this today during a humanitarian working visit to Jordan, according to the Belgian government web site.

Jordan, just like Turkey and Lebanon, was confronted with a massive inflow of Syrian refugees in the last few years. 

The UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, already registered more than 650,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan. Almost eight out of ten refugees are women and children.

Because of the very difficult humanitarian situation, Belgium exceptionally increases its humanitarian budget to 175 million euro this year, the highest amount ever.

Source: MENA