COVID-19 'emergency within emergency' for refugees: UNHCR seeks lifesaving zakat funds
UNHCR's Refugee Zakat Fund raised $43.165 million in 2019 that went to just over 1 million beneficiaries in eight countries.
This year, the outbreak and spread of the novel coronavirus puts the most vulnerable, including refugees, at an even greater risk. Houssam Chahine, UNHCR's Head of Private Sector Partnerships for the MENA region, calls the pandemic "an emergency within an emergency" for the refugee situation.
The need for zakat and sadaqah for refugees this year is "so big", he says.
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