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Gallery: UNHCR expands cash card assistance programme for refugees in Northern Greece

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Financial Information

The Emergency Support to Integration & Accommodation – ESTIA programme is funded by the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid.

In 2018, €155 million is available. This will allow UNHCR to gradually establish 27,000 places in urban accommodation by the end of the year. The majority of the rented apartments will be in cities and towns on the Greek mainland while up to 2,000 places will be located on the Greek islands.

The ESTIA cash assistance scheme aims to reach 45,000 people in 2018. Refugees and asylum-seekers receive a pre-defined monthly cash grant through a dedicated cash card. This allows them to meet their basic needs as they choose, with dignity, while supporting the local economy.

In 2017 a budget of €135.5 million was available in order to provide 22,000 urban accommodation places and pre-defined monthly cash grants through a dedicated card to refugees and asylum-seekers in Greece.

Special thanks

To major donors to the refugee emergency in Europe – the European Union, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom – as well as to all government donors and private donors for their generous contributions. The financial support provided by donors who have contributed with non-earmarked and broadly earmarked funds, as well as for those who have contributed directly to the situation and the Greece operation allows to provide direct assistance and protection, and help find solutions for refugees and asylum-seekers. In this changing operational context, UNHCR is appealing to donors to provide contributions that can be allocated as flexibly as possible.

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