The impact of the crisis in Syria, now in its fifth year, has been devastating. The number of people in need of humanitarian assistance has increased twelvefold from 1 million in 2012 to 12.2 million in 2015. This is the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War Two, according to UNICEF, and now the human tragedy is spilling over into Europe.

See article in Irish Independent of 7th September on   Five things you can do from Ireland to help Syrian refugees