$1.3 billion received to deal with refugee crisis. Most allocations by donors are for the education sector

More than half of the funds that the Government asked for this year to implement the yearly Lebanese Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) have been committed.

Hala Helou, international affairs advisor to the Ministry of Social Affairs, said: "We have received 55 percent of the allocations that we requested following the London donor conference." The Government asked for $2.48 billion to carry out projects as part of the LCRP. "We will get more aid this year than the previous one," she said.

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