Kuwait has come through with the $300 million it pledged towards aid for stricken Syrians at a January donor's conference, the emirate and the United Nations said Thursday."We are ... matching our words with our deeds," Kuwait ambassador Dharar Abdul-Razzak Razzooqi told reporters in Geneva, detailing how the cash had been split between nine UN agencies and the International Committee of the Red
"We hope that other (countries) will come and fulfil the pledges that they have made at the Kuwait conference," he added.
The donor conference resulted in some $1.5 billion in pledges of aid -- of which $520 million was specifically to help people trapped inside Syria, with the rest going to help the nations hosting refugees. However, before Thursday, only about 30 percent of the promised cash had come through.
Kuwait's contribution brings the funding level of the January pledges to around 50 percent, according to the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA.