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LDS Charities is donating more than $1 million in humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees who have fled to Jordan to escape civil war. Civil war has caused thousands of Syrians to flee their country, leaving with nothing. One camp had 400 babies under four- months- old.
Latter-day Saint couples, on service missions in Jordan, are now delivering humanitarian aid to 200-thousand refugees.
"We're on the ground and we can buy things in the local market. We didn't send back to Salt Lake and have it shipped. So they turned around in 24 hours and delivered infant formula and diapers. And, that's when the Jordanian government realized, 'oh, alright, there's a partnership here that when we have a gap, they can help,'" said director of LDS Charities, Sharon Eubank.
This partnership includes members of the Greek Orthodox and Latin Catholic churches as well.
"There's something healing about people saying, 'we don't care about what religion, what tribe, what gender, what nationality, all of us are working together to benefit you and you'll never even know us,'" Eubank said.
590-thousand dollars in supplies have already been donated, another 588- thousand will be spent in the coming months to help suffering people who need so much.
