NGOs are attempting to supply jobs but instant humanitarian needs are overwhelming moves towards longer term solutions for people in SyriaGiven the brutality that has arrive to characterise Syria’s four-year war,it is understandable that discussion of the conflict has focused on violent deaths. But there is another scourge destroying lives in the country: economic ruin and crippling poverty – what a UN-backed report (pdf) called “an equally horrendous but silent disaster.
Some aid organisations and policy experts are finding that, with more than four out of five Syrians in poverty, or traditional humanitarian aid,while essential, just isn’t enough. So they’re advocating for, and implementing,livelihood projects – intervention to assist people’s abilities to support themselves.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com