As part of the partnership with the LEGO Foundation, UNHCR supported the Lebanese Ministry of Education (MEHE) to introduce playful learning activities for children in public kindergartens through the training of counsellors from the Department of Orientation and Counselling.

Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center (CLMC) distributed aid items to vulnerable displaced Syrians in different regions of Lebanon. In the North, CLMC distributed in 250 food kits, 350 winter blankets, 300 summer blankets and 300 bed sheets. In Baalback, Arsal and Qaa and Masharih El Qaa (Bekaa), CLMC dis...

UNHCR operations in Lebanon are returning to normal with some improvements in the security situation over recent days. UNHCR registration centre in Tripoli has reopened and refugees are now making use of this. Distribution in the north was disrupted but with the reopening of the northern highway ov...

On August 23, UNHCR welcomed a 500,000 euro donation by the German government to help meet the health needs of displaced Syrians in Lebanon. This brings the total contribution of the Government of Germany to UNHCR’s efforts for Syrian refugees in Lebanon to one million euros. The donation will h...

School capacity in central Bekaa is over-stretched with many Syrian refugee parents wanting to enrol their kids in school. At this public school (Rawda), the maximum student capacity is normally 300, but the school stopped registering students at 382 this year. The school principal and teachers' off...

BEIRUT — EU and UN aid chiefs called in Beirut on Saturday for urgent funds to help internally displaced and refugee Syrians, in a new phase of a "brutal conflict" that has killed tens of thousands and affected hundreds of thousands more. In Damascus, meanwhile, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem cal...

Around 30-thousand Christian Syrian have crossed into neighbouring Lebanon since the start of the fighting nearly two years ago. Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall reports from the city of Zahle, where hundreds are taking refuge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwNsq6IfuTg

CNN's new webpage, created in collaboration with UNHCR and partners, focusing on coverage of Syrian refugees. http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/middleeast/syrian-refugees/index.html?hpt=imi_t2

Donors channelling funds towards Syrian refugees in Lebanon must also assist their poor Lebanese hosts to diffuse rising tensions, aid workers and a government official said ahead of an international pledging conference for humanitarian aid to Syria and its neighbours. “We have seen a growing sen...

Donor countries have pledged more than $1.5 billion for Syrians displaced by nearly two years of fighting, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, after a donor conference in Kuwait. Ban Ki-moon told the final session of the one-day conference that the meeting has "reached its target" of...