By Will Frechette | GlobalGiving
Seven years since the outbreak of civil war in their country, 5.6 million Syrians are now refugees, with 151,000 Syrians newly registering as such so far in 2018. The ongoing conflict threatens to drive this number higher in the coming months. The leader of the Syrian Civil Defence volunteer rescue workers (also known as the White Helmets) is warning that millions of residents in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib are at risk if the recently agreed upon ceasefire should fail. The city and its surrounding province are home to more than 3 million people, the majority of whom have fled from other parts of Syria in search of safety, and experts predict that a siege of Idlib could result in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people being displaced and heading for the Turkish border.
More than 600 miles from Idlib, 7,357 Syrian refugees have made the perilous voyage from Turkey to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea in search of safety so far in 2018. In this update I’d like to share progress being made by three of our nonprofit partners assisting these refugees on the islands of Leros and Lesvos:
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Will Frechette + the GlobalGiving Team
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