The U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees is facing an “existential” budget crisis and appealing for urgent funding of $120 million to keep essential education, healthcare and other services running, the agency's chief says.
FILE - In this July 4, 2021, file photo, Philippe Lazzarini, center, commissioner-general of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East , sits with students participating in an UNRWA summer camp at Beach Preparatory School for girls, in the Shati refugee camp. The U.N.
At stake is the agency’s ability to keep 550,000 children in school, provide health care for thousands, and pay the salaries for its 28,000 staffers in November and December, Lazzarini explained. But Lazzarini said the U.S. funding has been offset by decreased funding from other donors as a result of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and no information from potential donors in the Middle East.
In an effort to reverse this trend, Lazzarini said Sweden and Jordan will be co-hosting a conference in mid-November in Brussels whose main aim is to ensure more predictable multi-year funding for the agency.
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