Almost 300,000 vulnerable families have registered for a UNICEF-Ministry of Social Policy humanitarian cash assistance programme. In Ukraine, UNICEF and partners have distributed life-saving health and medical supplies for nearly 2.1 million people in war-affected areas enabled access to safe water for over 2.1 million people living in areas where networks have been damaged or destroyed reached over 610,000 children and caregivers with mental health and psychosocial support and provided learning supplies to nearly 290,000 children. UNICEF and its partners are on the ground in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, working to provide children and their families with humanitarian assistance, including child protection, water and sanitation, health, nutrition and education services.
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UNICEF is appealing for full humanitarian access to safely and quickly reach children in need wherever they may be. This includes ending the use of explosive weapons in populated areas and attacks on civilian infrastructure. UNICEF continues to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and to protect all children from harm. More than anything, they need peace.Īt the same time, the war and mass displacement are devastating livelihoods and economic opportunities, leaving many families without sufficient income to meet basic needs and unable to provide adequate support for their children. These children urgently need safety, stability, child protection services, and psychosocial support – especially those who are unaccompanied or have been separated from their families. Most have been exposed to deeply traumatic events. Children fleeing violence are at significant risk of family separation, violence, abuse, sexual exploitation, and trafficking. UNICEF is also warning that the war has caused an acute child protection crisis.
Without an urgent ceasefire and negotiated peace, children will continue to suffer – and fallout from the war will impact vulnerable children around the world.” “Instead of celebrating the occasion, we are solemnly approaching June 3 – the 100 th day of a war that has shattered the lives of millions of children. “June 1 st is International Day for the Protection of Children in Ukraine and across the region,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. Conditions for children in eastern and southern Ukraine where fighting has intensified are increasingly desperate. Hundreds of other schools across the country have also been damaged.
Civilian infrastructure on which children depend continues to be damaged or destroyed this so far includes at least 256 health facilities and one in six UNICEF-supported ‘Safe Schools’ in the country’s east. Almost two out of every three children have been displaced by fighting.īased on reports verified by OHCHR, on average more than two children are killed and more than four injured each day in Ukraine – mostly in attacks using explosive weapons in populated areas. Three million children inside Ukraine and over 2.2 million children in refugee-hosting countries are now in need of humanitarian assistance. NEW YORK/GENEVA/KYIV, 1 June 2022 – Nearly 100 days of war in Ukraine have wrought devastating consequences for children at a scale and speed not seen since World War II, UNICEF said today.