How to help in Syria--send aid to the refugees. They are in dire need.

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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — International aid to Syrians uprooted by civil war is a "drop in the sea" of what is needed, a top U.N. official said Monday, estimating that five million Syrians have been displaced inside the country.

In addition, 2 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries, according to U.N. figures. The total, of about 7 million, amounts to nearly one-third of Syria's population.

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1. Medicins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

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2. Can you imagine the impact of helping the refugees compared to bombing?

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3. UNICEF

http://www.unicef.org/

Press release

Critical supplies for Syrian refugee children airlifted to Erbil

100 MT of supplies will support vital services for over 20,000 new Syrian children and their families in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq, 1 September 2013 – A plane carrying 100 tonnes of UNICEF emergency supplies to assist Syrian refugee children and families arrived this evening in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

The supplies were urgently airlifted from UNICEF’s global supply warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark, to respond to the growing needs of Syrian refugees in Iraq, who now number more than 200,000. Some 50,000 refugees arrived in the last two and a half weeks, half of whom were children.

“These supplies come just in time to meet the pressing needs of the over 20,000 Syrian children who have recently arrived in northern Iraq,” said Dr. Marzio Babille, UNICEF’s Representative to Iraq. “This airlift underlines UNICEF’s unwavering support for the vital services these children need in the face of terrible suffering, trauma and stress.”