Brussels, 22/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 22 June, the European Union announced the adoption of new projects to help Syrian refugees and their host communities in Turkey, Jordan and Libya, for a total of €201 million.
The board meeting of the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, which brings together the European Commission, member states, representatives of Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, as well as international financial institutions, thus adopted projects linked to education and water supply and for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA).
More precisely, €165 million will be disbursed for actions in Turkey that will support education, including school construction and higher education for young Syrians, and for extending water and waste-water facilities in southern Turkey; - €21 million will be used as urgent financing for a €140 million programme financed together with the EU member states to rehabilitate the overstretched water networks in northern Jordan, where most of the Syrian refugees reside; - and the remaining €15 million will allow UNRWA to provide urgent education services and cash assistance to thousands of Palestinian refugees from Syria, who have now fled to Lebanon and Jordan.
Since 29 May 2015 and the adoption of the first programmes, €660 million of the trust fund's €730 million has already been allocated to concrete assistance programmes for refugees. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)