UNICEF estimates that there are already ten million children in urgent need of help

Oct. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned this Friday that there are already 10 million children in need of “urgent vital aid” due to the catastrophic floods that occurred in Pakistan, after the visit made by the director of the organization for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei, to the affected areas.

“As this climate disaster continues to affect the lives of millions of children in Pakistan, in the end it is the most vulnerable children who pay the highest price,” said UNICEF’s regional director.

The Fund estimates that at least one in nine children suffers from severe acute malnutrition as a result of the floods, a tragedy that “has become an acute child survival crisis.”

“As winter approaches, children crammed into flimsy tents, when they are lucky enough to have one, will continue to succumb to illnesses that are normally preventable and treatable,” UNICEF said. .

Laryea-Adjei lamented that the climate crisis encompasses many facets. “Extreme heat waves have scorched the region’s crowded cities, with temperatures reaching as high as 48 degrees, glaciers have continued to melt in Pakistan and Bhutan, while landslides in Nepal have leveled the homes of boys and girls”.

“Children have not played any part in creating the climate catastrophe in South Asia, but they are the ones who pay the highest price,” he lamented. “Without urgent global action, the climate devastation we have seen in Pakistan, I fear, will only be a precursor to many more child survival catastrophes to come,” she concludes.