 The five-year-old conflict in Syria has displaced a significant population in the country. Thousands of women, men and children continue to be in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. Meeting the ever-growing demand for relief assistance has always been a challenge and the global humanitarian operations of the ICRC would go to any length to acquire relief items, even if it has to be shipped to Syria from thousands of miles away. India for the time being is one of the big hub for sourcing. The ICRC delegation in India has been buying items from India for a very long time. A long-term agreement with this company from 2010. And this is the company who is supplying us blankets for all our emergency stops and also for all our emergency situations, such as Syria today. We sourced rice for the first time in India. Our HQ decided to buy from two mills in Burdoan, South Bengal, in India. The rice grains being purchased undergo a series of quality checks to make sure they are fit for human consumption. It has been analysed and they found that it's non-GMO product, that it's without insect and that it's fit for human consumption. We would be buying something like 1.5 million to 2 million blankets per year. We do generally stock them in our regional emergency stocks worldwide and of course we also supply them directly from Panipat to countries such as Syria or intimately Mali was one of the recipient countries. 450 tonnes of high quality rice have been bought from Burdoan which is popularly known as the Rice Bowl of India. Now it will be sent to Kolkata Port and from Kolkata Port it will go straight to Syria by vessel. We make a living by what we get but we can make lives by what we give so that way we feel that this is more of a giving thing and it should do them good. In Syria what they will receive from India is so important in terms of value because they don't have enough food and this quality of rice which is very good will really save life.