(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Syrian refugee Mais, and her younger sister Anaghem, stand at the door of their apartment in Amman, Jordan, in this 2014 file photo. © UNHCR/J. Kohler HELSINKI, Finland - Nearly six years since the start of the Syria conflict, United Nations agencies and NGO partners on Tuesday appealed for US$4.63 billion in funding to meet the growing needs of Syrian refugees that have fled the fighting, as well as the struggling communities hosting them in neighbouring countries. The funding is designed to provide lifesaving support to more than 4.7 million Syrian refugees, the vast majority of whom live below the poverty line...
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