However, the United Nations agency admits that it is “probable that the actual numbers are higher”. It also reveals that two-thirds of Ukrainian children have been displaced or fled.
Euskaraz irakurri: 250 haur hil eta 300 baino gehiago zauritu dituzte Ukrainako gerra piztu zenetik, UNICEFen arabera
In this more than two-month war in Ukraine “close to” 250 children have diedthere are more than 300 injured and the actual numbers are likely to be higher. two-thirds of Ukrainian boys and girls are displaced in their own country or have been forced to flee and seek refuge in another,” UNICEF Spain President Gustavo Suárez reported.
Suárez appeared this Thursday to report on the plight of children in Ukraine after 71 days of war and to take stock of the work done so far. As he has denounced, the situation of the children’s collective in this country is ” more desperate every dayespecially in the east and south”. Moreover, he recalled that behind the data provided there is “a childish face, a story of fear, flight and violence, a very unfair present and a future, if this war does not end, cut short “.
James Elder, UNICEF spokesperson, told from Zaporizhia (in the southeastern part of the country) that “children’s humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate, especially in places like Mariupol When I was here two months ago, nearly three million children needed help. Now it’s 5.3 million.”
UNICEF has provided humanitarian aid since the outbreak of the war, with safe water, sanitation and hygiene products, medicines, clothing and even psychological support.
The situation in host countries, such as Poland, is “worrying,” said Daniel Timme, of the UNICEF Ukraine Emergency Response team, from the neighboring country. “Although the flow of arrivals has decreased, the fear of those who arrive is more visible than before. Many children have faced protection risks before or during their displacement, such as separation from their parents and other relatives, witnessing violence or the collapse of their social and community structures,” he insisted.
From UNICEF Spain, they calculate that nearly 130,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Spain, more than a third of whom are children and adolescents. As they have stated, “until May 2, there were 843 unaccompanied minors registered”.
Sara Collantes, migration specialist at UNICEF Spain, believes that it is necessary to address the situation of the Ukrainian families who were already in our country and who are now hosting refugees, as their socio-economic vulnerability is increasing, and for this reason it is necessary to streamline their access to social protection”.
Collantes has argued for thinking about “more stable and long-term measures”, in setting up “work integration strategies” and for “making schools authentic protective environments in which they can receive Psychological supportExactly, UNICEF Spain believes that mental health is “one of the most important issues to be addressed”, as it concerns boys and girls who have fled from “absolutely traumatic” situations.
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