Hosting over 600,000 Syrian refugees is expected to cost Jordan $3.2 billion this year, according to official estimates (Photo by Muath Freij)
At the closing of the second annual Syrian refugee donors’ conference late Wednesday, the UN announced it had secured pledges for $2.5 billion in funds to provide urgent humanitarian aid to a forecast four million Syrians driven from their homes and over six million internally displaced this year.
The pledges come as violence continues to intensify across Syria, with the UN reporting over 9.3 million civilians in need of “urgent humanitarian aid” — over half of whom are children.
EU countries promised a total of $753 million.
