United Nations
UNICEF: We need 2.5 billion euros
Because of the acute conflicts in the world has the UN-children’s Fund according to own data one of the largest Nothilfeaufrufe its history started. Syrian girls and boys are the focus.
For a long time from starvation threatened the inhabitants of the Syrian city of Madaja
In the year 2016 would be around 2.5 billion euros is needed, around 43 million children in 63 countries in crisis with the Necessities to provide for and to protect better, said UNICEF Director Anthony Lake in Geneva. Total should be the help of 76 million people – children as well as parents and/or caregivers – benefit. Lake urged governments and other possible donors to the required amount.
Every ninth child lives in a conflict zone
The need to have in a few years be doubled, it said UNICEF’s next. Now live “every ninth child in the world in a conflict zone”. The risk for these children before their fifth birthday from preventable diseases, to die, be about twice as high as that of children outside of conflict zones.
UNICEF Director Anthony Lake
The help for the victims of the civil war in Syria is the information after 2016 the largest humanitarian UNICEF-Operation. The organization wants to do for the five million Syrian boys and girls within and outside of your home, such as in Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey – an education Finance. To women and children on the run within Europe to protect better, with a financial need of 28 million euros.
“Yemen of the world paid little attention”
Hanna Singer, UNICEF representative in Damascus, said that Syria is the world’s most dangerous country for girls and boys. Children would Play hurt and killed, many Adolescents are of the warring parties in the military service pressed been.
Another focus of the work of the children’s Fund are 2016 Yemen, South Sudan, Sudan and the democratic Republic of the Congo. Alone in Yemen were “of the world paid little attention to the” tens of millions of children on rapid humanitarian assistance – the need for UNICEF to around 166 million Euro.
sti/kle (afp, dpa, epd)