Yes... And it has only gotten worse.
A Danish journalist has written this article - Google translated.
It is from yesterday.
DR in Jordan: Desperation is greater than everBy Maya Nissen
The refugee camps in Jordan stretches as far as the eye can see. In tents and barracks occupy more than 600,000 displaced people - men, women and children.
And the many Syrian refugees who over the last four years have fled the bloody conflict in their home country, is in a more desperate situation today than ever before.
It says Steen Nørskov, the host at P1 and P1 Orientation program 'Arab Voices' from Jordan.
- A year ago, half of the Syrian refugees feed themselves and their children. Today, according to the UN, only one in 10, he says to P1 Morgen.
UN has run out of moneyAt the same time comes the announcement by the UN that
a quarter of a million refugees in Jordan in recent days have been told that the UN no longer have the money to help them.
UN food program World Food Programme stops help in the area with effect from today.- It puts them in a completely desperate situation. Many of them have been here for two years, some of them have been have anymore. They used what they had with the savings they have sold what they had of values. And
they have in the two years not been able to work because they can not work in Jordan, says Steen Nørskov.
- Therefore, almost all Syrians here rely on the help that the international community can send them through the UN or other international organizations.
Sell themselves to surviveThe desperate situation presses the many Syrian refugees out in similar desperate situations.
Some resort to illegal work and prostitution to feed their families, says Sten Nørskov.
- There are even Syrians who take their children out of school and send them out into the streets to work. Those who are most desperate seller simply their children into prostitution. Some let their young girls married off - down to 13-14 years of age, says Steen Nørskov.Europe or back to the ruinsThe lack of the most basic relief - namely the UN food aid - will, according to the United Nations get a portion of the refugees to pull up stakes and join the refugees seeking to reach Europe. Others will look back to the war-torn Syria and try to create a life in ruins.But it will not be an option for the most vulnerable refugees, says Steen Nørskov.- Some of the families that I have met, and responsible for the most vulnerable, says that they have not even considered. They simply do not know how to get from Jordan and out of the escape route that leads many hundreds of thousands fleeing to Europe in recent months and weeks, he says.
Jordan reaches the limitIn Jordan, for since the war began opening schools for Syrian children, shared the country's scarce water resources with the refugees and, until recently, offered free medical care and hospitalization in the country's hospitals for wounded and sick refugees.
But now Jordan, who are poorer than both Turkey and Lebanon, which have taken most of the other refugees, also reaching its limit, says Steen Nørskov.
- Jordanians have shared everything they possibly could have. But now they can not, he saysHelp is not to seeCompared to how much European politicians, including the Danish, talking about the need for help in the immediate area, so help is to overlook when moving around in the area, says Steen Nørskov.
- To the extent that comes through, then it is far too little. So the help we talk so much about giving in the immediate area, it fails to roughly. It will in any event not to the extent that is necessary.
Denmark's new right-wing government has just revoked previous approved citizenship applications (so they have to re-apply with new, tougher rules, despite them having been vetted earlier), lowered the aid to refugees to about half (and it wasn't particular generous before) and refuses to take any responsibility and keeps on saying that we should help in the surrounding countries. So they also just cut 2.6 Billion DKK in foreign aid.
Topic: Syria