Syria and Damascus Government

emergency relief fund: LIVE CHAT CBC Forum: How do you think Canadian money is helping Syrian refugees Syria crisis: 60 killed in blasts near Shia shrine in Damascus Government creates emergency relief fund to aid Syrian crisis victims Madaya, besieged Syrian town, plagued by starvation as winter takes hold When the trucks roll into the volatile southern districts of Syria Monday morning, the latest shipment of aid, partially paid for by Canadians, will be delivered to a small number of the 680,000 Syrians that United Nations says are in dire need of assistance, according to CBC. International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau leaves the storage unit of a tractor-trailer parked in Jordan, along Syria border. Bibeau watched as aid workers loaded a convoy of trucks with rice and other foodstuffs, along with blankets and warm clothes to keep Syrians warm during the cold winter months. It part of a convoy that will deliver aid to the volatile southern districts of Syria. "Canada is really doing its best to support these populations in need," Bibeau told CBC News, on her first trip to the Middle East since being sworn in back in November. "We are working very hard to find the best way to contribute to the humanitarian assistance and also to work and to build on the resilience of the other countries, like in Jordan right now." Aid workers load the back of a tractor-trailer with boxes of food, blankets and clothes to help keep Syrians warm and fed during the winter. Few are holding out hope that the latest round of international talks, which began in Geneva on Friday, will accomplish much. With Syria civil war now approaching its sixth year, there are few signs that the conflict will end soon. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.