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US supports Libyan children with $1.5 million

The US embassy in Libya said that ambassador Richard Norland participated in a video meeting led by UNICEF Special Representative in Libya Abd Al-Rahman Ghandour, explaining that the State Department had supported UNICEF in Libya with $1.5 million funding for health and child protection activities in Tripoli, Misrata, Tawargha and Benghazi.

The embassy said in a statement on its Facebook page that UNICEF office in Libya provides critical support, health, nutrition, hygiene and education to hundreds of thousands of children as well as other members of the children’s families, adding that the activities range from administering vaccines to rehabilitating schools plus efforts aim at preventing the spread of the Coronavirus in the country.

The statement indicated that UNICEF is working with the National Center for Disease Control to produce and publish health-friendly educational materials for children and is coordinating closely with the Ministry of Education to provide distance learning options for schoolchildren, adding that it is also working with the Ministry of Social Affairs to ensure the protection of populations that are at risk, indicating that the US embassy continues to strengthen health, nutrition and basic hygiene services For thousands of families.

The US embassy explained that Norland and Ghandour talked about the problem of children disproportionately affected by conflict in several ways, including exposure to violence, displacement and the lack of regular and adequate access to basic services such as health, education, nutrition, water and sanitation, stressing the need for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the indiscriminate bombing of civilian infrastructure.

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