Prague, Oct 30 (CTK) – The Czech Republic will send about 3.7 million euros in aid of the countries that have been afflicted by the migrant crisis most of all this year, and another 2.5 million next year, according to a document the cabinet is to discuss on Monday.
The highest sum is to go to the two EU funds for Syria and Africa, respectively, and a part also to the World Food Programme (WFP) and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Five million euros are to go, in two equal instalments in 2015 and 2016, to the Madad (the Arabic word for aid) fund, which the European Commission established together with Italy last year.
The initial 40 million euros were put in the fund by the EC and Italy from their respective budgets. Later, contributions were announced by other states, including Germany.
In the first phase, the Madad fund is mainly designed to help child and juvenile refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, the three countries that host over four million refugees from the war-stricken Syria.
The fund is also designed to help refugees in Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Western Balkans.
The Czech Republic will send another 0.6 million euros to the nascent fund for Africa, a project to be discussed at the EU-Africa summit in Malta on November 11-12.
The Czechs will have only an observer status in the fund.
Finally, Prague will contribute with 400,000 euros to the WFP, which distributes food to refugees, and 200,000 euros to the UNHCR, which is the chief coordinator of aid to Syrian refugees in the Middle East.
