IRAQ: UN AGENCY AIRLIFTS SUPPLIES FOR SYRIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN, FAMILIES IN ERBIL

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Date: 2 Sep 2013 18:00:00 -0400
Subject: IRAQ: UN AGENCY AIRLIFTS SUPPLIES FOR SYRIAN REFUGEE
CHILDREN, FAMILIES IN ERBIL
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IRAQ: UN AGENCY AIRLIFTS SUPPLIES FOR SYRIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN, FAMILIES IN ERBIL
New York, Sep 2 2013 6:00PM
The United Nations children's agency is scaling up its assistance to
thousands of Syrian refugee children and their families in the
Kurdistan region of Iraq where tens of thousands of families arrived
in recent weeks.

A plane carrying 100 tonnes of supplies - including water tanks,
latrine equipment, school materials and temporary schools - landed
yesterday evening in Erbil, the UN Children's Fund
<"http://www.unicef.org/media/media_70289.html">said in a news
release.

The supplies were urgently airlifted from UNICEF's global supply
warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark, to respond to the growing needs of
Syrian refugees in Iraq, who now number more than 200,000.

According to the UN agency, some 50,000 refugees arrived in the last
two and a half weeks, half of whom were children.

"These supplies come just in time," said Marzio Babille, UNICEF's
Representative to Iraq. "All of these items are part of a first wave
of supplies that will massively scale-up UNICEF's emergency response
to the growing number of Syrian refugee children and families in
Iraq."

The supplies, a result of support from the Government of Kuwait and
the UPS, also include tap stands, water purification tablets and
testing kits; oral rehydration solution; emergency health and hygiene,
early childhood development and recreation kits; and safe spaces,
according to the news release.

UNICEF is working closely with the Kurdistan Regional Government,
UNHCR, other UN agencies, and international and national NGOs to
deliver vital essential services -- particularly in the water and
sanitation, education, health and nutrition, and child protection
sectors - to Syrian refugee children and their families in the
Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

In the past week, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Office of
the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have also delivered and
distributed tents, high energy biscuits and special nutrition bars
contributed to families in the area.

Almost 200,000 Syrian refugees have fled into Iraq since the onset of
the conflict in Syria on March 2011, with some 30 per cent residing in
camps and 70 per cent living in Iraqi communities.

Sep 2 2013 6:00PM
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