Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our guests and to our ambassador in New York.
I want to start with a question. It's very cogent and reflects the failure of the international community, and this isn't to point any fingers at anyone here. It's just that the international community has failed with regard to Syria, as we just found in the reports coming out. The UNICEF figures that were released today estimate that as many 14 million children are now affected by the Syrian crisis. If we go back to 2012 there were about 500,000 Syrian children who were in need of humanitarian aid. That figure is now 7.6 million. Now 14 million children are affected by this crisis. It's four years today since the crisis started in Syria.
We obviously have been doing things, so I want to acknowledge that, but I'm just underlining that the international community has failed drastically.
I want to focus on Lebanon because we now know that one in four in Lebanon are refugees from the crisis.
I just want a very succinct answer on this. Has the government recently funded any child protection initiatives with regard to children in Lebanon?
I'll ask that of anyone of the panellists here.