1 in 5 Lebanese Households Says Children Go to Bed Hungry, UN Children’s Fund Warns
UNICEF said 770,000 children have faced psychological distress as schools are damaged, families are displaced and basic services remain strained.
- A new UNICEF report published Wednesday warns that four in five Lebanese households struggle to meet basic needs, as children face hunger, missed healthcare, and interrupted schooling.
- Since March, Israel has killed at least 261 children and wounded 1,056 others, while nearly 330,000 people remain displaced due to ongoing airstrikes and military activity across southern Lebanon.
- Education has been severely disrupted with 436 schools damaged or destroyed, prompting 46% of families to cut spending and 17% of children to stop attending school entirely.
- UNICEF Lebanon Representative Marcoluigi Corsi highlighted the profound psychological distress impacting an estimated 770,000 youngsters, saying children are bearing a burden "no child should have to carry."
- The report, titled 'An Enduring Nightmare,' warns that without urgent action, an entire generation risks carrying the scars of this crisis into adulthood as Lebanon's recovery depends on protecting children.
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The United Nations Children ' s Fund (UNICEF) warned against the worsening suffering of children in Lebanon, noting that four out of five families had difficulty in securing basic needs, while at least one out of five hungry children slept with the continuation of hostilities and the repercussions of the economic and social crisis that had been going on for years.
1 in 5 Lebanese households says children go to bed hungry, UN Children’s Fund warns
LONDON: Children are going to bed hungry in at least one in five households in Lebanon, and a similar proportion does not have enough safe drinking water, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Wednesday. Prolonged conflict and displacement are inflicting deep and lasting harm on youngsters in the country, the agency warned. The ongoing crisis in Lebanon has left an estimated 770,000 children and young people suffering from psychological distre…
In Lebanon, 80 percent of households, or four out of five, have difficulty meeting their basic needs: 22 percent reported that their sons and daughters had fallen hungry in the last two weeks, 31 percent, that the infants were left without necessary medical care; and 14 [...] The post In Lebanon, four out of five households suffer to meet basic needs: Unicef first appeared on Contralínea.
14% of households surveyed say that at least one of their children works
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