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Aid groups say children need immediate shelter, psychological support, education, and permanent homes
A 7.8-magnitude quake, followed by a 7.5-magnitude tremor, struck southeastern Turkey on Feb. 6, killing more than 46,000 people in the country and neighbouring Syria. Then on Monday, just as people were starting to catch their breath, two more quakes and several aftershocks hit.
Turkey's government told the Washington Post last week that the families of 263 rescued…
A baby began her life surrounded by chaos and devastation this week.
Reportedly named Aya – meaning ‘miracle’ in Arabic – she was born under the rubble of Monday’s deadly earthquake, still attached to her mother’s lifeless body by the umbilical cord when rescue workers found her.
Her story certainly seems miraculous, as she survived for more than 10 hours under the wreckage of her family’s five-story apartment building in northern Syria after it was leveled…
NEW YORK/GENEVA/AMMAN, 6 February 2023 – Thousands of children and families are at risk after two devastating earthquakes and dozens of aftershocks hit south-east Türkiye and Syria today.
According to authorities, in the two countries, more than 2,300 people have been killed, including children, with thousands more injured. These numbers are only likely to increase.
A slim and chilling new book has ignited a public debate in France on the country's refusal to bring back hundreds of French children who were left in Kurdish camps in Syria.
Many of Syria's nearly three million displaced people face dire winter conditions with a brutal snowstorm hammering the region, the United Nations warned Monday as it urged the international community to do more to protect them.
"No one should live in these conditions" and it is "absolutely unacceptable," Mark Cutts, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told reporters by video link.
"We are extremely concerned" about the 2.8 million displaced people in the region, he said.
"Yazidi survivors groups have embraced a decision by the community’s elders to allow children who are the result of rape by members of Islamic State to return with their Yazidi mothers to their homelands in Iraq," says this article from the Guardian. Before this decision was made, women who had children as the result of rape by members of the terrorist group and who did not want to be separated from their children were exiled by the community, often forced into detention camps in Syria and not permitted to return to their homes in Iraq. Many women who chose to return to their…
Turkey has opened a vast centre, termed "Orphans City," dedicated to housing and educating orphans from war-torn Syria.
Alaa al-Din Obeid, an orphanage located in Azaz, near Aleppo and the Turkish border, serves seven hundred Syrian boys and girls. Reported as the only children's on the northern countryside of Aleppo, the facility is becoming overcrowded, with 300 boys live permanently in the orphanage hopes to build a special residental ward for girls. The orphanage director reports a need for additional services and professionals to care for the growing number of children traumatized by the war in Syria.
This article from Reliefweb states that 20,000 people were recently evacuated from Aleppo. The majority of which were children, women and families.
According to this press release from Save the Children, thousands of families are fleeing to dirty overcrowded refugee camps in Syria.