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SYRIA EMERGENCY RESPONSE
The ongoing conflict in Syria has severely reduced access to heating fuel during the coldest time of year, leaving families and elderly throughout Syria struggling to stay warm on nights that dip below freezing. With support from ACT Alliance, IOCC in partnership with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (GOPA) IOCC is responding with winter relief to more than 30,000 Syrian families. Families living in areas with access to fuel but no power received diesel stoves, while families facing fuel shortages but still have electricity received electric heaters. During the next four months, IOCC/GOPA will also be distributing winter clothing kits to families forced to flee their homes with no personal belongings. The kits will provide a warm winter coat, wool scarf and gloves, as well as pajamas, socks and undergarments.
photo by Paul Jeffrey / IOCC
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More than four million Syrians have been displaced in their country or forced to seek refuge in other countries. Inside Syria, IOCC is one of a handful of humanitarian agencies still able to reach people in need.
IOCC is also responding to the urgent needs of Syrian refugees living in Jordan and Lebanon. In Jordan, IOCC has distributed hygiene kits and bedding sets to 1,600 refugee families, and provided 12,000 school uniforms to girls and 4,000 track suits to boys living in Za'atari refugee camp, as well as to underprivileged children in urban areas.
IOCC has reached out to 1,500 refugee families living in Lebanon with hygiene and infant kits, and provided 250 refugee families with winter blankets and stoves. | 
