http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-group-quietly-feeding-Syrian-refugees-in-Jordan-329385
I was now interested in learning about how Israel IS helping out the Refugees. My next cultural post will be an update on what is happening with the refugees but I found this article from October 22, 2013 to be quite compelling. A company called IsraAid is provided anonymous support to the Syrian refugees in Syria and Jordan. This company has raised over $100,000 to help the refugees in this area and are gaining more and more help daily. 70 volunteers cross the border to Jordan weekly with medicine, food, and supplies. Just because the country of Israel is not as friendly to refugees as some people would like does not mean that the country does not support or help with refugees across the world. IsraAid is a non-profit, NGO, that has provided aid to other countries such as Japan, Kenya and Haiti. IsraAid is currently working on bringing Social Workers to Jordan and Syria to help with the psychological trauma of warfare.
http://israaid.co.il/projects/jordan
Going straight to the website IsraAid, I was able to learn a bit more about the project and the statistics. They estimate that there are over 6.8 million people who are in need of humanitarian efforts. This was astonishing to me. Their efforts they have distributed over 10 tons of supplies to the refugees and helped over 7,000 people.
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