(MENAFN- QNA) UNICEF is launching a US$3.1 billion appeal its largest ever to reach 62 million children at risk in humanitarian crises worldwide a US $1 billion jump in funding needs since last year’s appeal.
"From deadly natural disasters to brutal conflicts and fast-spreading epidemics, children across the world are facing a new generation of humanitarian crises," said Afshan Khan, UNICEF’s Director of Emergency Programmes. "Whether in the headlines or hidden from view, emergencies sparked by social fracture, climate change and disease are stalking children in ways we have never seen before."
Growing numbers of children are facing increasingly complex and destructive conflicts, natural disasters and other emergencies, including the Ebola epidemic, which are placing them in extraordinary danger of violence, hunger, disease and abuse and require increasingly more resources to address.
More than 1 in 10 of the world’s children or 230 million currently live in countries and areas affected by armed conflicts alone.
"I have just returned from Syria and Lebanon where millions of children have had their lives torn apart," said Afshan Khan. "For the past four years, these children have been witnessing violence and death daily and have been missing out on the very basics in life. This appeal will help secure a future for not only the children of Syria but all children around the world who are impacted by humanitarian crises."
UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children 2015 appeal targets a total of 98 million people, around two thirds of whom are children, in 71 countries.
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