New Zealand to send aid for Syrian refugees

 

The New Zealand government will give $625,244 to help Syrian refugees, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Monday.

 

"New Zealand condemns in the strongest possible terms the ongoing violence and the toll it is taking on the people of Syria," Xinhua quoted McCully as saying.

 

"The latest atrocities in Syria are part of a huge humanitarian crisis in which it is estimated over 100,000 people have been killed and two million displaced. It has placed a huge burden on Syria's neighbours," he said.

 

The funding would be delivered through six New Zealand-based NGOs, which would match the funding, to help more than 200,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan, McCully said.