SOS-Kinderdorf International [to 21 March 2015]
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20 March 2015
Syria’s ‘lost generation’ of children now suffering year 5 of war
As the brutal conflict in Syria enters its fifth year, over 12.2 million people there need life-saving humanitarian assistance. Almost half of them are children who now face a fifth year of being denied their rights to safety, education, health care and protection.
“Amid the horror and despair of a fifth year of conflict in Syria, it is children and young people who are suffering most. They are being killed and injured, tortured, displaced, and deprived of their right to safety, education and a future. Many have lost parental care. Large numbers have no care at all,” said SOS Children’s Villages International CEO, Richard Pichler.

He added: “UNICEF has assessed that more than five-and-a-half million children are currently in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria. There are almost two million refugee children outside the country. It is no exaggeration to speak of a ‘lost generation’. SOS Children’s Villages and other organisations are acting, but what will it take for this shameful suffering to end?”

SOS Children’s Villages’ first Emergency Response Programme in Syria provided support for more than 88,500 children – most of them Internally Displaced Persons – between 2013 and 2014…