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Afghan children cannot be abandoned, says UNICEF

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August 30, 2021
UNICEF has launched a $192 million appeal to address the escalating humanitarian crisis. Source: RFE.

UNICEF has launched a $192 million appeal to address the escalating humanitarian crisis. Source: RFE.

NEW YORK: A senior official of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) after a visit to Afghanistan has said that the world “cannot abandon Afghan children now” when their needs are greater than ever before.

George Laryea-Adjei, Regional Director for UNICEF South Asia, said children have paid the heaviest price in recent weeks of increased conflict and insecurity in the country.

Not only have some been forced from their homes, and cut off from their schools and friends, they have also been deprived of basic healthcare that can protect them against polio, tetanus, and other diseases.

A United Nations report said 5,770 Afghanistan children were killed or maimed between January 2019 and December 2020.

“Now, with a security crisis, skyrocketing food prices, a severe drought, the spread of coronavirus, and another harsh winter just around the corner, children are at greater risk than ever,” he warned.

UNICEF has predicted that if the current trend continues, one million under-fives in Afghanistan will face severe acute malnutrition, a life-threatening condition.

Laryea-Adjei said more than four million children, including 2.2 million girls, are out of school. Around 300,000 youngsters have been forced to flee their homes, some of whom were in bed sleeping, “and too many of them have witnessed scenes that no child should ever see”, he said.

“Children and adolescents are struggling with anxieties and fears, in desperate need of mental health support,” he added.

Laryea-Adjei voiced concern over having enough resources to keep health centres up and running, schools open, and services available to treat severely malnourished children.

UNICEF, which has been in Afghanistan for more than six decades, continues to maintain a field presence across the country and is engaging with interlocutors to scale up response.

The agency is currently supporting mobile health and nutrition teams at camps for displaced people, and setting up child-friendly spaces, nutrition hubs and vaccination sites, while also pre-positioning additional lifesaving supplies and supporting thousands of students in community-based education classes.

However, Laryea-Adjei stressed that more resources are direly needed. UNICEF recently launched a $192 million appeal to address the escalating humanitarian crisis, urging donors to step up support.

“Young people and children have been telling us they are in desperate need of the most basic items and services – needs which, given support, the humanitarian community can easily respond to,” he said.

“The needs of the children of Afghanistan have never been greater. We cannot abandon them now.”

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