More than 500,000 Syrian
refugee children suffer poverty and hunger.
Not exact matches
«Most
refugees from the Middle East are women and
children who have
suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war,» said NAE president Leith Anderson.
Most
refugees from the Middle East are women and
children who have
suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war.
Women
suffer the most due to civil wars, being subject to rape, becoming single parents, made
refugees and having to bring up
children without proper schooling, social services and their traditional cultural environment of home, the extended family and village or town.
In recent years, Stearns has called the Church to engage in the global
refugee crisis and to follow Jesus into the most difficult places in the world to alleviate human
suffering and care for the world's most vulnerable
children.
An NYU - Bahcesehir research team was the first to document the educational and mental health needs of Syrian
refugee children, finding that an overwhelming majority are not enrolled in school in Turkey, partly as a result of language barriers, and about half
suffer from PTSD and / or depression.
This link becomes obvious e.g. when the students learn about the life of
children in a
refugee camp in Malawi or when they make friends with students in Afghanistan who are both directly
suffering from the violence surrounding them.
«Instead of going to a government official and saying all students deserve to be in school, what we normally say at UNICEF and what is true, we should also say that if we don't get
refugee children in schools, those
children (especially adolescents) will be competing for jobs with the Jordanian youth, who are
suffering from unemployment, and so will negatively affect the country's economy.»
The number of
refugee children living in America is unknown, but many of these individuals
suffer with significant posttraumatic stress (PTSD) due to exposure to violent acts, death or loss of family members, loss of home, unfamiliar surroundings, and other events.