9 year-old Mohammad fled his home in the town of Sbeneh in rural Damascus four years ago when violence escalated and sought refuge with his family in Lebanon. Even though Mohammad was attending school in Lebanon, the different education systems meant that he had to re-do Grade 1 upon his return to Syria last […]
After six years of war in Syria, winter is the latest threat to children. In rural Quneitra in southern Syria, 400 families displaced by fighting live in makeshift shelters made with blocks, plastic sheets and tin. With extremely limited resources and amid heavy snowfall, these families continuously fight for their lives. The camp was […]
For children and their families across Syria, winter used to bring joy. But after six years of conflict, childhood memories of getting cosy around the heater, playing in the snow and warm winter clothes, are all but forgotten. 7 February 2017, Damascus, Syria- Six years of war have changed how winter feels for children […]
For the third year, an innovative partnership in Syria is providing much needed warm clothing for the most vulnerable children in the northeastern Hasaka governorate. The winter kits produced by a UNICEF partner and a local association group, Al-Birr, include a winter jacket, woolen sweater, winter trousers, woolen hat, scarf and gloves, woolen socks, and […]
By Masoud Hasen 23 January 2017- Hasakah –For many children in Syria, school is little more than a distant memory. Others have never seen the inside of a classroom. But in small pockets all over the country, children and their families are doing whatever they can to reclaim an education that is rightfully theirs. […]
By Leen Tarabichi 3 January, 2016, Homs, Syria- When Manar and her family left their house in the old city of Homs back in 2011, she left behind so much more than her belongings. As violence escalated in her neighbourhood, Manar, 12 at the time, had to leave her friends, her school and her […]
By Yasmine Saker 11 January 2017, Damascus, Syria– An estimated 5.5 million people, including 2 million children, have been cut off from running water for over three weeks in Damascus and its surroundings, the longest cut Syria’s capital has seen. Intense fighting damaged the water infrastructure for the two main drinking water sources for Damascus-Ain […]
By Yasmine Saker and Basma Ourfali Aleppo, 22 December, 2016 Since renewed fighting in the eastern part of Aleppo on 24 November, at least 40,000 people have been displaced within and from the area. Half of them are children. Displaced families have been transported to the industrial district of Jibreen where they are temporarily housed […]
By Yasmine Saker TARTOUS, Syrian Arab Republic, 7 December 2016 – When a UNICEF team first met 14 year-old Wahid in the summer, he was fetching water for his family in “1070”, a complex of unfinished apartment buildings in the Al- Hamdaniyah neighbourhood of western Aleppo. A month later, the area turned into a conflict […]
By Shushan Mebrahtu and Basma Ourfali Aleppo/Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic – 8 December 2016 Five days ago, 10-year old Ahmed arrived in Jibreen, an industrial district on the outskirts of Aleppo. Ahmed’s parents were killed in the vicious conflict engulfing the city. He and his four siblings have nobody to take care of them […]
