14 and offered to take 25.000 more.
– Switzerland announced its consideration to accept Syrian refugees per U.N. request.
- As of early 2014 Iran has sent 150 tons of humanitarian goods including 3,000 tents and 10,000 blankets to the Red Crescents of Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon via land routes to be distributed among the Syrian refugees residing in the three countries.
– People's Republic of China has donated $200,000 for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
– Canada will resettle 1,300 Syrian refugees over two years. Canada announced $100 million in humanitarian aid for Syria in June 2013. In January 2014, Canada pledged $105 million to Jordan, of which $100 million was "to promote economic development and deliver basic services, such as education, to Jordanians and Syrian refugees". As of March 2014, "no more than 10 have arrived in Canada."
– Colombia has accepted Syrian refugees that have asked for asylum within Colombia. The refugees are then reported to the United Nations Refugee Agency in Bogotá, where then they are aided to learn Spanish with support of Pastoral Social, a Colombian NGO that works closely with the UNHCR .
– gave $10 million for Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. Russia also granted over 1000 Syrian refugees asylum.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR
) has a policy of helping refugees work and be productive, using their existing skills to meet their own needs and needs of the host country:
:Ensure the right of refugees to access work and other livelihood opportunities as they are available for nationals... Match programme interventions with corresponding levels of livelihood capacity (existing livelihood assets such as skills and past work experience) and needs identified in the refugee population, and the demands of the market... Assist refugees in becoming self-reliant. Cash / food / rental assistance delivered through humanitarian agencies should be short-term and conditional and gradually lead to self-reliance activities as part of longer-term development... Convene internal and external stakeholders around the results of livelihood assessments to jointly identify livelihood support opportunities.
In order for humanitarian efforts to be effective, it is important to understand the profile of those seeking refuge (existing mental health system and available resources).
If enough aid is provided to refugees, it can help host countries too, through stimulus effects. However refugee support does not usually provide cash to create effective demand
Turkey has accepted 400,000 Syrian refugees, half of whom are spread around a dozen camps placed under the direct authority of the Turkish Government. Satellite images confirmed that the first Syrian camps appeared in Turkey in July 2011, shortly after the towns of Deraa, Homs and Hama were besieged.
Zaatari refugee camp
Mrajeeb Al Fhood refugee camp
thumb|Refugee tents at Arbat Transit Camp for Syrian Refugees in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, March 2014.Dohuk
Domiz refugee camp
Moqebleh refugee camp
Gawilan refugee camp
Kawergosk refugee camp
Basirma refugee camp
Qushtapa refugee camp
Darashakran refugee camp
Arbat transit camp
Refugees of the Libyan civil war
Refugees of Iraq
*Iraqis in Syria
CBS News – Syrian refugees flee to Lebanon, 25 June 2011.
The TELEGRAPH: Syrian Refugees flood into Lebanon, 13 March 2012.
Syrian Civil War