U.N. News Centre: Syria: U.N. food agency’s operations secure after funding drive; must raise more in 2015
“Having raised $88 million in a 10-day global fundraising effort, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) [Tuesday] said its funding for December 2014 was secure and the agency could resume providing food assistance through electronic vouchers to 1.7 million refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey. … In the first three months of next year, WFP would need $339 million to support operations related to the Syria crisis…” (12/16).