Italy contributes €1 million to help children in Syria with disabilities cope - UNICEF

DAMASCUS, 5 December 2022 – The Government of Italy has contributed €1 cardinal to UNICEF to enactment the astir susceptible children with terrible intelligence and/or carnal disabilities and their families successful Syria done proviso of regular currency assistance coupled with one-on-one enactment from societal workers.

In Syria, 14.6 cardinal radical – including much than 6.5 cardinal children – request humanitarian assistance successful 2022. Children with disabilities are often hardest deed by the conflict. With their families, they conflict to header amid the ongoing conflict, continued displacements, the unprecedented economical crisis, deepening poverty, and unemployment. The hike successful terms of commodities triggered by the planetary vigor situation is further compounding their dire situation.

Many children with disabilities transportation a treble load erstwhile it comes to violence, threats to their wellness and safety, hunger, hazard of abuse, and nonaccomplishment of education. Lack of mobility and trouble fleeing harm further compound the obstacles they encounter. 

“Italy is committed to enactment the rights of children with disabilities. Italy appreciates UNICEF’s integrated involution aiming to not lone code economical and societal vulnerabilities of the children and their families but besides heighten their wellbeing,” said Massimiliano D’Antuono, Chargé d’Affaires of the Italian Embassy successful Damascus.

“The Italian Cooperation designs its interventions respecting quality rights, promoting activities aimed to combat taste prejudices and stigma, and promoting societal inclusion. UNICEF’s integrated programme, portion foreseen arsenic a holistic involution to enactment children with disabilities and their families, strengthens their dignity and enhances their societal inclusion”, said Alessandra Piermattei, AICS Director for Lebanon and Syria.

UNICEF’s integrated societal extortion programme provides children with disabilities and their families regular and un-conditional currency transfers with lawsuit absorption services. The currency assistance is captious to assistance families screen for the basal needs of their children and the lawsuit absorption constituent helps to notation the children to societal services, expanding their societal inclusion and responding to their circumstantial extortion concerns.

“UNICEF acknowledgment the Government of Italy for its important contribution. With our partnership, we’re jointly taking captious steps towards helping much children with disabilities to scope their imaginable and fulfil their rights to beryllium cared for and nurtured,” said Ghada Kachachi, UNICEF Syria Representative a.i.