Independent publisher Pavilion Books, in association with members of the Booksellers Association, is raising money to help fund vital life-saving relief efforts by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) for Syrian refugees.

The world has failed Syria’s refugees and some of the world’s wealthiest countries have turned their backs on this humanitarian disaster. Syria’s neighbours—Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq—have together absorbed more than 3.8 million refugees. The need for food relief is great and growing.

Soup for Syria is a soup cookbook collected and photographed by Barbara Abdeni Massaad, who was touched by the plight of the Syrian refugees after visiting refugee camps in her native Lebanon. Acclaimed chefs and cookbook authors from all corners of the world including Yotam Ottolenghi, Claudia Roden and Anthony Bourdain, have come together to help relief efforts to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees, with all proceeds from the sale of each cookbook being donated to help fund relief efforts. With fabulous soups from hearty winter warmers to chilled summer soups, these recipes are a delicious collection made with no-fuss ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions.

You can help by buying the book Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate Our Shared Humanity from your local bookshop. Every penny from the sales price of the book will be donated by Pavilion and participating booksellers to UNHCR.

If you’d like to do more to help, you could host your own soup party fundraiser using soups from the book and donate the proceeds on this page. For more ideas on fundraising for this very worthwhile cause please go to www.pavilionbooks.com/soupforsyria

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