Saturday, September 1, 2012

#Syria Denmark to give two million euros to help provide aid to Syrian refugees

[NOW Lebanon]  to give two million euros for refugees, says report   

Denmark to give two million euros for Syria refugees, says report
September 1, 2012    share
Denmark will free up another two million euros to help provide aid to Syrian refugees and displaced people as a civil war rages in their homeland, Danish public television DR reported Saturday.



Out of the 15 million kroner (two million euros), 13 million will go to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and two million to the Danish crisis agency, which sends personnel and equipment to Syrian refugees in Jordan.

"It is a very hard and frightening conflict," Christian Friis Bach, the country's development cooperation minister said on television.

"The money will go towards the construction of a camp, sanitation and tents, food and administration, which are the most pressing needs," he said.


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