{"id":10831,"date":"2022-07-03T10:06:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T10:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2022-10-15T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:20:38","slug":"eu-provides-25-million-euros-for-children-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/07\/eu-provides-25-million-euros-for-children-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"EU provides 25 million euros for children in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">KABUL (SW) &#8211; The <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">European Union has provided additional \u20ac25 million for polio vaccines and \u20ac15 million for child protection in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the UNICEF, a<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">s Afghanistan\u2019s economic and humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, children across the country face violence and other threats to their safety, forcing them to make desperate decisions in order to survive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Many children and young people feel forced into labour, and some choose to take the risky journey out of Afghanistan. Last year, 88 per cent of households had at least one child working outside the home under difficult conditions, it said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u201cThe dangerous journey for children across borders, especially when traversed alone, places these migrant children at risk of violence, exploitation, and abuse,\u201d says Andreas von Brandt, EU Ambassador to Afghanistan. \u201cThat is why the EU is contributing an additional \u20ac15 million to UNICEF, to help identify boys and girls returning to Afghanistan who need help, and children at risk of migration, and give them options other than migration or labour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">This \u20ac15 million, provided as a continuation of EU support since 2018, will allow UNICEF to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Provide psychosocial support to 18,000 unaccompanied minors, trace their families, ensure they are reunified and support them to reintegrate into their communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Provide vocational training, small business start-up or apprenticeships for 7,500 children and 500 adults.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Provide cash-based assistance to over 4,600 households most in need.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Reach out to over 230,000 community members to discuss the dangers of child migration and how it can be prevented or addressed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Reach out to 140,000 men and women on preventing gender-based violence.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">In addition, EU has contributed a combined \u20ac25 million to UNICEF and the World Health Organization to support polio vaccination campaigns across the country, especially at borders where children may be transiting, said the organisation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u201cAfghanistan is one of the two remaining polio endemic countries in the world, and transmission often occurs when children move from Afghanistan to Pakistan and back, causing them to miss their regular vaccination appointments,\u201d says Mohamed Ayoya, UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u201cThese funds will allow UNICEF and WHO to strengthen polio vaccination efforts to ensure all children in the country, and those crossing transit points, are vaccinated against polio.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Between May 2021 and April 2022, UNICEF procured 33.5 million doses of polio vaccines, vaccinating between 6.3 to 9.8 million children under five during national campaigns. Permanent teams positioned at busy borders with Iran and Pakistan have also vaccinated 1.2 million migrating children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The European Union has provided additional \u20ac25 million for polio vaccines and \u20ac15 million for child protection in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,200,982,5,4,6,7],"tags":[12,278,279,453],"class_list":["post-10831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-democracy-human-rights","category-international","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-children","tag-eu","tag-unicef"],"views":294,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12244,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions\/12244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}