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Over two mn kids hit by Syrian conflict: Unicef
Tuesday March 12, 2013 07:16:48 PM,
IANS
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Geneva: More than
two million children have been affected by the violence, massive
population displacement and damage to infrastructure and essential
services in Syria, Unicef said Tuesday.
It said that in areas where fighting was most intense, access to
water had fallen by two-thirds, while one in five schools had been
destroyed, damaged or was being used to shelter displaced
families, Xinhua reported.
Children were suffering the trauma of seeing family members and
friends killed, while being terrified by the sounds and scenes of
conflict, the report said.
Unicef said its assistance efforts to affected Syrian children
were being threatened by a critical shortage of funding.
In December 2012, the UN agency had appealed for $195 million for
life-saving assistance for Syrian children and their families. To
date, the appeal is less than 20 percent funded, it said.
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