Crisis on childhood! UNICEF report will scare, 25 crore children in danger


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Unicef ​​Report: According to the UNICEF report, in 2023, 242 million children in 85 countries were interrupted by climate threats. Schools were destroyed in Asia and Africa. Serious impact of climate crisis on children.

Crisis on childhood! UNICEF report will scare, 25 crore children in danger

Unicef’s report has raised concern. (File photo)

Highlights

  • In 85 countries, 242 million children were disrupted.
  • Hundreds of schools were destroyed in Asia and Africa.
  • Serious impact of climate crisis on children.

UNICEF Report: Childhood is the most spectacular thing. But whenever there is a danger in the world, it is first affected by children. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) institution works on children. Recently he has released a report. This report has increased the concern. UNICEF said in a new report on Friday that last year, at least 242 million children in 85 countries were interrupted due to heatwaves, cyclones, floods and other extreme weather.

News agency AP report UNICEF said that this means that in 2024, a school in every seven worldwide school was out of class due to climate threats at any time or the other. The report also reported that hundreds of schools in some countries were destroyed due to weather, especially in the lower-oriented countries of Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa.

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This happened due to weather in many countries
But other areas were also not spared from the extreme weather, as torrential rains and floods in Italy at the end of the year disrupted the education of more than 900,000 children. Classes of thousands of children stopped after the devastating floods in Spain. While Southern Europe faced deadly floods and floods and cyclones in Asia and Africa, Heatwave was “the major climate threat to closure schools last year” said UNICEF, as Earth recorded the hottest year ever.

UNICEF said that more than 118 million children were disrupted in April alone. Because large parts of the Middle East and Asia, from Gaza in the west to the Philippines in the south-east, were facing a fierce heatwave for a week, with the temperature gone above 40 ° C (104 Fahrenheit).

Unicef ​​expressed concern
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement, “Children are more sensitive to the effects of weather-related crises, including strong and more frequent heatwaves, storms, droughts and floods. Children’s bodies are uniquely sensitive. They are rapidly heated, they sweat less effectively, and cool gradually compared to adults. Children cannot focus in classes that do not relieve the scorching heat, and they cannot go to school if the path is immersed in floods, or schools are washed away. ”

UNICEF said in its report, about 74% of the children affected in 2024 were among the middle and low-come countries, showing that climate extremes keep having disastrous effects in the poorest countries. In April, floods in Pakistan destroyed more than 400 schools. Afghanistan caused severe floods after heatwave in May, which destroyed more than 110 schools.

In southern Africa, drought for months, which increased by the El Nino weather phenomenon, put millions of children in danger and future. And there were no signs of crisis being reduced. The poor French region of Myote in the Indian Ocean near Africa was ruined by Cyclone Chido in December and this month was re -influenced by the tropical storm DiCeli, causing the children of the islands to stay out of school for six weeks.

Cyclone Chido also destroyed more than 330 schools and three regional education departments in Mozambic on African mainland, where access to education is already a deep problem. UNICEF said that the world’s school and education systems are “a large extent disabled to deal with the effects of extreme weather.

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Crisis on childhood! UNICEF report will scare, 25 crore children in danger