UN Says 210,000 Children in Syrian Province Need Urgent Help
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About 420,000 people in the Syrian province of Homs, half of them children, are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance, according to a United Nations mission that spent a month in the area.
Mark Choonoo, emergency specialist at the United Nations Children’s Fund which was part of the mission, said most of the children he saw showed signs of distress, according to an e-mailed statement from UNICEF. About 200 of 1,500 schools in Homs have been damaged by the fighting, it said.