The Director of Operations for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) John Ging Monday urged greater funding to assist the humanitarian aid in Syria. Ging told a news conference in New York that "the situation in Syria, as we all know, continues to deteriorate and that means that there are greater needs more people in need but also that the needs are more acute as the coping mechanisms continue to collapse. The biggest humanitarian effort in Syria is the effort of the population to support their brothers and sisters at this incredibly difficult time." "Families are hosting so many people and they themselves are also affected by the situation," he added. He said that the UN agencies had to reduce in the past two months the nutritional value of the aid distributed due to the lack of funding.