UNHCR projects that if current trends continue around 4.27 million will have fled Syria by the end of the year.
Working with the Luol Deng Foundation, USA for UNHCR, the Enough Project, and other NBA stars like Tracy McGrady and Derek Fisher, we collaborated on launching the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program, which helps provide a quality education to thousands of refugee students in schools in the Darfur camps in the neighboring country of Chad.
A further €24m has been given to UNHCR for other projects.
About UNHCR, UNHCR Innovation, and UNHCR's Education Unit The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14 , 1950by the United Nations General Assembly.
The foundation has partnered with UNHCR on refugee-related energy projects in five other countries in the Middle East and Africa, he said.
Participants also have the opportunity to learn about charities such as Concern Worldwide U.S., Heifer International, Opportunity International, The Hunger Project, MLB Players Trust and USA for UNHCR, and generate everyday conversations about issues that seem so far away to raise vital funds to support the end of extreme poverty.
Priorities for the regional office: Strengthen country capacities: Strengthen capacities to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in CAR, Chad and Cote d'Ivoire through an inter-agency project with UNFPA and UNHCR Support the training of military and police in partnership with Save the Children Sweden and the International Bureau for Children's Rights.
I visited two projects: first, the work the UNHCR is doing with the vast numbers of Iraqi refugees living in urban slums outside Damascus; second, a refugee camp called al-Tanf, which houses 800 Palestinian refugees from Iraq in the no man's land between the Iraqi and Syrian boarders.
The project is built in partnership with UNHCR Innovation and Return on Innovation, a US-based not-for-profit organisation.
HIS: health information system; IRR: incidence rate ratio; ITN: insecticide-treated net; IPTp: intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy; MAP: Malaria Atlas Project; MUAC: mid-upper arm circumference; UNHCR: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
