Syria-specific guidance on monitoring non-food item assistance exists and includes a streamlined reporting system to be used by all organizations to uniformly report and share findings across the sector which will better inform program design and implementation (NFI Sector Working Group 2015).
Receipt of non-food item assistance was significantly associated with odds of care-seeking in multivariate analysis, but not in univariate analysis.
Spokesman Adrian Edwards said: The help we are seeking includes for household items, financial assistance for 200,000 people considered vulnerable, medical assistance, counselling of displaced populations, rehabilitation of shelters and support to encourage refugee and displaced Syrian children to return to school.
World Vision brings clean water, hygiene kits, basic household items, cash assistance and other critical basic needs to families in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq to help prevent them from having to make the dangerous journey to Europe.
They were able to explore and discuss the items without assistance demonstrating correct understanding.
Baseline information included the following health measures: the Charlson Index, the Mini-Mental-State Examination, Lawton and Brody's scales for physical self-maintenance and the instrumental activities of daily living, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale, self-reported health (one item), and perceived social functioning (one item) and assistance in living at discharge.
Food delivery was the only item of assistance reported by few elderly (men vs. women, 10/189 vs. 26/307, χ = 1.64, df = 1, p = 0.2).
For data measured at one time point (the GP Clinical assistance items) independent t-tests were employed to compare mean differences of complete cases between groups.
Survivors receive clothing and basic household items, and get assistance with socio-economic reintegration – including training to help them regain independence and self-confidence.
As of August 11, 2006, about 1.8 million Chinese yuan ($220,000) worth of relief items and financial assistance had been given to the victims.
