4M Iraqi children in need – UNICEF

About a quarter of all Iraqi children are living in poverty, and in the wake of more than four years of violence, families are being pushed to “extreme measures” in order to survive, said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday (Tuesday in Manila), as a major conference on rebuilding the country was set to open tomorrow in neighboring Kuwait.

“Children are Iraq’s future,” said Geert Cappaelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, adding that “the Kuwait Conference for Iraq this week is an opportunity for world leaders to show that we are willing to invest in children—and through investing in children, that we are willing to invest in rebuilding a stable Iraq.”