Trócaire
European Refugee Crisis
In the past year, 3,573 people have died attempting to reach Italy, Greece and Spain by sea. That is an average of ten people a day. This is both a humanitarian crisis and a crisis of humanity.
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What Trócaire is doing:
Trócaire is responding to the growing needs of extremely vulnerable refugees in partnership with Caritas Serbia and has allocated €50,000 so far to provide sleeping bags and raincoats, hygiene kits, health services and psychosocial support.
In Syria, because of a brutal war, over 7.6 million people have been forced to abandon their homes and a further 4.1 million Syrian people have become refugees in neighbouring countries. Jordan and Lebanon are hosting 1.75 million Syrian refugees.
Trócaire is working in Syria and Iraq, and in Jordan and Lebanon. Trocaire is providing food, shelter, clean water and other basic needs and we have reached over 93,000 Syrian refugees to date.
