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In from the cold: Winter supplies bring warmth to Syrian refugees
Alaa and her baby sister, Muna, live at Azraq Camp in Jordan where UNHCR has helped to supply their family with the essentials so sorely needed to stay warm during winter.
Alaa and her baby sister, Muna, live at Azraq Camp in Jordan where UNHCR has helped to supply their family with the essentials so sorely needed to stay warm during winter.
For Abu and Um Waleed, the gift of winter cash assistance has brought warmth into their home—in more ways than one.
“In this time of unprecedented need, many governments capable of being champions are instead turning their backs on their international obligation to assist refugees,” writes UNHCR Canada representative Jean-Nicolas Beuze.
UNHCR’s chief Filippo Grandi has praised Canada for being a “champion” of refugees with its far-sighted and generous resettlement efforts, but in view of a record number of forcibly displaced people worldwide he urged Canadians and others to do even more.