Geneva, SANA-The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced that the number of Syrians returning to their country since the fall of the previous regime has exceeded half a million refugees, at a rate of 100,000 returnees per month. However, the challenges facing them\u2014and the country as a whole\u2014remain immense.<\/p>\n
Lujain Hasan, UNHCR Protection Associate in Syria, stated on the agency\u2019s website: \u201cThe number of returnees to Syria is approaching 500,000.\u201d She explained that these individuals \u201care starting their lives from scratch and are in desperate need of support to reintegrate into their communities. The main and basic challenge is the shortage of funds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hassan also noted that despite the many challenges, the overwhelming sense she gets when speaking to families returning home after so many years is one of optimism.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cWhen you are meeting returnees, you see the hope in their eyes. They want to rebuild \u2013 not only their houses but the whole country,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s really time to invest, to try to support these people to build a life again.\u201d<\/p>\n
UNHCR has highlighted on its website that its ability to assist all those in need is limited due to a sharp reduction in humanitarian aid funding, which threatens recovery and stability efforts. The number of Syrian returnees from neighboring countries has now surpassed 500,000, in addition to approximately 1.2 million internally displaced persons who have returned to their homes in the past five months.<\/p>\n
The UNHCR, in cooperation with Syrian authorities and other partners, is working to support returning Syrian refugees and internally displaced persons by rehabilitating and repairing damaged homes, providing legal assistance to replace lost identity and property documents, and launching initiatives to help them find work and secure a livelihood.<\/p>\n
Reem Abdulhameed \/ Manar Salameh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Geneva, SANA-The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced that the number of Syrians returning to their country since the fall of the previous regime has exceeded half a million refugees, at a rate of 100,000 returnees per month. However, the challenges facing them\u2014and the country as a whole\u2014remain immense. Lujain Hasan, UNHCR …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":356250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356251,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356249\/revisions\/356251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}