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According to UNICEF, the UN children's agency, Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a child. One in five children do not live past the age of five. Afghanistan is second only to Sierra Leone when it comes to child mortality. Most of those deaths are caused by curable childhood diseases and malnutrition, compounded by the security situation, which means that parents are unable to access proper health care.

 

UNICEF regional communications chief Sarah Crowe says,  "It is very hard to put a hard and fast figure to the number of children dying from hypothermia alone on Kabul's streets as there would undoubtedly be other reasons that would make them sick or vulnerable in the first place. Extreme poverty, having lost a parent, being trafficked or displaced, or many other reasons may have forced them on to the streets where they would be deprived of their most basic needs (decent food, health, immunization, protection) and exposed to the extreme cold of Afghan winters."

 

We ask that our Government consider the children of Afghanistan and the effects this war is playing in their lives. We also ask that when we help rebuild this nation that we help address the needs of the youth in Afghanistan.

 

Thank you,

 

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According to UNICEF, the UN children's agency, Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a child. One in five children do not live past the age of five. Afghanistan is second only to Sierra Leone when it comes to child mortality. Most of those deaths are caused by curable childhood diseases and malnutrition, compounded by the security situation, which means that parents are unable to access proper health care.


UNICEF regional communications chief Sarah Crowe says, "It is very hard to put a hard and fast figure to the number of children dying from hypothermia alone on Kabul's streets as there would undoubtedly be other reasons that would make them sick or vulnerable in the first place. Extreme poverty, having lost a parent, being trafficked or displaced, or many other reasons may have forced them on to the streets where they would be deprived of their most basic needs (decent food, health, immunization, protection) and exposed to the extreme cold of Afghan winters."


We ask that our Government consider the children of Afghanistan and the effects this war is playing in their lives. We also ask that when we help rebuild this nation that we help address the needs of the youth in Afghanistan.


Thank you,


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