Syrian Arab Republic: ECHO Factsheet – Syria crisis – May 2016

Factsheet - Syria crisis (ECHO)

• Medical facilities continue to be targeted by aerial bombardments, resulting in fatalities and destruction of facilities. Impeding the delivery of essential medical supplies, equipment and treatment continues to be used as a weapon of war while there are continuous reports on removal of medicines and medical supplies from aid convoys and attacks on personnel and medical facilities.
  
• In Jordan, a priority in 2016 humanitarian funding is to support the emergency needs of the more than 57 000 refugees stranded along the North-Eastern border with Syria. Conditions for asylum seekers at the border are dire, and in some cases people wait for months before accessing humanitarian support.
  
• The EU is working with international organisations such as WFP on weekly food distributions, with UNICEF for distribution of water and nutrition activities for young children and UNHCR for registration of new arrivals. UNICEF mobile teams provide mothers and new born babies with kits as often deliveries take place in terrible conditions.
  
• In Turkey, the Commission's humanitarian funding is prioritising programmes that provide basic assistance to the most vulnerable refugees, including food assistance and emergency items mainly in the form of electronic vouchers, access to health care and to protection services. More than half of the refugees in Turkey are children. According to UNICEF 74% of refugee children are out of the education system often for years, and are at risk of becoming a lost generation.