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BRUSSELS, April 28 (KUNA) -- Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation Alexander De Croo Tuesday agreed to release 2.6 million euro for the funding of three humanitarian projects supporting Syrian refugees.
A part of these funds, 844,288 Euros, will be released to fund a project of the Red Cross in Lebanon focusing on food safety, noted a Belgian foreign ministry statement here.
In the region, Lebanon is the country most affected by the refugee crisis: on a population of 4.5 million inhabitants, there are 1.2 million refugees, the highest ratio of refugees in the world.
De Croo also allocated 800,000 euro to Handicap International Belgium. The Belgian NGO will support victims of the Syrian conflict who became disabled. An estimated 1.1 million people got injured during the Syrian conflict. Many of them became disabled for life.
The remaining 1.019 million euro will be allocated to the Flemish Red Cross for the delivery of personal hygiene kits for women, babies and the elderly in refugee camps. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent will also get support, it added. (end)
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