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A woman from Homs, Syria, now a refugee in Lebanon, shows off knitted woolen clothes that she's learnt how to make, with support from the International Rescue Committee and UK aid.
As well as training women to make fishing nets, for which there is a local market in northern Lebanon, the International Rescue Committee is also running a project helping women to learn to knit clothes. The clothes can then either be used by the refugees themselves (many refugees were able to bring very few clothes with them from Syria) or they can be sold at local Lebanese markets like this one.
The UK has committed over £600 million to help those affected by the conflict in Syria - our largest ever response to a humanitarian crisis. This funding is providing support including food, medical care and relief items for over a million people - people who have been affected by the fighting but are still inside Syria and those who have fled the country and become refugees in neighbouring Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.
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