World Food: 5.5 million people in Syria receive half of the aid allocated to them due to lack of funding

ARK News… Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program, revealed that the donations received by the program have halved, explaining that the program was forced to cut food aid and cash payments to millions of people in several countries, including Syria, due to the stifling funding crisis.

Skau said during a press conference that 38 out of 86 countries have already witnessed a decrease in aid, including Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and others, and pointed out that the 5.5 million people in Syria who depend on the World Food Program are already receiving only 50% of the prescribed rations. for them.

The UN official stated that the program reduced all rations this month to 2.5 million Syrians, and stated that the requirements for running the program amount to 20 billion dollars, to provide aid to all those in need, but the goal was to collect between 10 billion and 14 billion dollars, but the program has achieved this. General only about five billion dollars.

Earlier, the United Nations World Food Program announced that it would reduce monthly cash assistance to 120,000 Syrian refugees living in the Za’atari and Azraq camps in Jordan, citing what it called an "unprecedented funding crisis."

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