There remains no end in sight to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Today, the World Food program is striving to help more than 4 million refugees within and beyond Syria’s borders, and hopes to reach 6.5 million by the end of 2013. Here’s a look into what WFP provides Syrians affected by the continued fighting, based on U.N. data provided to Devex.

1. Crisis in Syria:
What’s in WFP
food aid package?

2. There remains no end in sight to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Today, the World
Food program is striving to help more than 4 million refugees within and beyond
Syria’s borders, and hopes to reach 6.5 million by the end of 2013.
Here’s a look into what WFP provides Syrians affected by the continued fighting,
based on U.N. data provided to Devex.

3. Inside Syria
WFP provides a monthly food basket for a family of five:
Kg
Kcal/Person/Day
Wheat flour
25
607
Rice
15
360
Bulgur wheat
2.5
58
Pasta
2.5
58
Pulses
5
113
Canned pulses
5
109
4.5
268
5
133
Iodized Salt
0.5
0
Total
65
1,706
Oil
Sugar

4. Turkey
WFP, along with the Turkish Red Crescent, distributes
electronic food cards, with each Syrian family member
receiving a card loaded with 80 Turkish liras ($45) per month,
enough to buy 2,100 kilocalories per person per day.

5. Lebanon
WFP mainly provides food vouchers of $27 per month to each Syrian
refugee, to redeem food items of their choice including fresh produce,
dairy products, vegetables and fruits, meat, chicken and fish, with total
daily per person kilocalories of 2,100. It has begun transitioning to plastic
e-cards containing the same value as the vouchers.
Unregistered families receive monthly dry rations of 43 kilograms of oil,
cheese, tuna, coffee, canned meat, pasta, halava, wheat flour, lentils,
bulgur, beans, dry pulses, rice and sugar.

6. Jordan
Syrian refugees in all Jordanian governorates receive food vouchers of
$34 to buy 2,100 kilocalories of food per person daily.
But in Zaatari camp, WFP provides food rations amounting to the same
kilocalories, distributes more than 25 metric tons bread per day – or about
half a million portions of flat bread – and ready-to-eat meals to new
arrivals, as well as runs a school feeding program. It has begun
distributing vouchers so refugees can buy food inside the camp.

7. Iraq
Each refugee receives food vouchers of $31 a month,
sufficient to buy 2,400 kilocalories of food per day.

8. Egypt
WFP offers food vouchers of $30 per month so each person
can acquire 2,100 kilocalories of food daily.

9. Read more:
• What it's like to be an elderly Syrian refugee
• Resolution, not rhetoric: Syria's humanitarian
access dilemma
• Save the Children pushes for humanitarian access
in Syria
Stay tuned to Devex for the latest in-depth analysis
on the crisis in Syria.