Eight years of war : As children under the violence in Syria suffering

Lina knows what war means. Four years ago, the parents of the Syrian child died during an air RAID. "After that, I was hoping that I would follow them. But God had other plans for me.“ Of their family of the brother, the grandmother and disabled uncle are alive today.

you'll be in Idlib, the last refuge of Regime opponents. There, the 13-Year-old lives with her family in an unheated shack with plastic sheeting in front of the broken Windows. After the death of the mother and father, Lina went three years to school – for fear of the bombing.

all of the young people told the staff of Save the Children. The aid organization has asked in the February 365 girls and boys between the ages of ten and 18 years, in four Syrian provinces. The now published Report titled "A Better Tomorrow" makes it clear that children suffering from the war, and what they are hoping for.

Therefore, to create the ongoing violence, poor security, inadequate living conditions and lack of schooling make them. And this problem has a huge Dimension. Since Tuesday, a donors ' conference in Brussels takes place, organised by the EU and the United Nations. It ends today, Thursday.

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Five million children are order dependent on humanitarian aid. Many, because they have lost their parents. Two and a half million have become refugees. And four million know nothing other than war. Peace, stability and the formation of Syria's children.

in need of Protection. Recently many parents have themselves and their children before the battles need to get to safety. In the East of Syria...photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP

But the Land is still far. The children's United Nations Fund (Unicef) estimated that in 2018, so many children have been killed than in any of the eight conflict years earlier. A minimum of 1100 girls and boys have lost their lives due to the war.

The number of attacks on educational and health facilities, reached a high last year, with 262, a record. Also children would be kidnapped unabated recruitment as soldiers, and mutilated; children's rights are on a daily basis ensures a massive miss.

undernourished, married off as children, threatened by unexploded ordnance

extreme poverty. An estimated 70 percent of Syrians live on less than two US dollars per day. The savings of the families are long gone, there are no Jobs.

And Not to the detriment of children: they must contribute to livelihood. Girls are married early, young is allowed to militias. Even the Smallest children are sent to Beg. More than 90,000 adolescents are acutely malnourished.

not to mention the danger posed by mines and unexploded ordnance. 2018 were injured, according to information from Unicef 434 children by explosives or killed, more than three million are directly threatened.

Fatal is likely to have an impact, especially that many Syrian children are denied access to education. Two million girls and boys do not attend school.

seeking Protection. A child endure during a bombing in the province of Idlib in a basement.Photo: grandma Haj Kadour/AFP

This is due to the fact that every third of these facilities can be used, because they are completely destroyed, severely damaged or purpose, have been alienated. And who will make it to the classroom, floating, perhaps, in danger of their lives. In the past year alone 120 schools have been attacked.

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learn the classes remain empty because parents need their children urgently as Zuverdiener. That is to say: Shine the shoes, or paper handkerchiefs sell instead of learn to read and write.

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the children of longing to sit undisturbed next to your classmates and to learn. Also Lina. The 13-Year-old from Idlib wants to finish school finally, teacher will be and then make a contribution to her shattered, ravaged country again.