The United Nations stated needing $16 billion to fund its humanitarian programs for 2015. Half of the budget is allotted to aid the victims of Syria.
Fifty-seven million vulnerable people will be aided by the UN but it needs a larger amount of money to sustain its operations next year. They admitted running out of funds to help the refugees in Syria and would need $2.8 billion to continue sustaining its programs.
Also, the organisation needs another $4.4 billion to help more than 3.4 million refugees in Syria. UN undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos said, "The rising scale of need is outpacing our capacity to respond."
"The crises in Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan and Syria will remain top humanitarian priorities next year," she said, with the conflict accounting for more than 70 percent of the funding needed.
The United Nations, in the last few years, already sought for funds to help Syrian refugees, which is now considered as the "biggest humanitarian test of time," BBC reported. They determined political solutions to address the rising humanitarian crisis, in which 80 percent of the fund goes directly to the vulnerable people struggling to live amidst the conflict.
Countries like Iraq, South Sudan, Syria and the Central African Republic have vulnerable people who needed help, and they are living in countries with no political solution known.
UN now focuses on finding way to distribute aids from needy areas, but the conflict zones would not listen to their plans. While donors are ready to help in the funding, it is not enough to support the growing needs. The food and medical supplies have to be purchased in advance, aside from the field hospitals needed to be built.
Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said their operations are "not business as usual."
"This is not business as usual in the humanitarian world. Today's needs are at unprecedented levels, and without more support there simply is no way to respond to the humanitarian situations we're seeing."
A BBC reporter in Geneva, Imogen Foulke, said "relief never happens overnight – aid agencies need to plan, but to do that they need cash."
Amy is a Press Services International Columnist from Adelaide. She has a BA in Creative Writing and Screen & Media, and now works as a freelance photographer, videographer and writer. She was runner-up in the 2018 Basil Sellars Award. Her previous articles can be viewed here: http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/amy-manners.html