Charitable giving as a religious act or duty is referred to as alms. The name stems from the most obvious expression virtue charity. After nearly nine years of conflict, the Syrian crisis continues to have a huge impact on children inside Syria, across the region and beyond. Every Syrian child has been impacted by the violence, displacement, severed family ties and lack of access to vital services. This has had a huge psychological impact on children.

Since December, more than 800,000 people, including more than half a million children, have been displaced by violence in the northwest of the country. In Idlib Province, many families have suffered multiple displacements and are increasingly desperate, with no way to safely escape the violence.

How Have Children Been Affected?

The Syrian crisis remains first and foremost a protection crisis. Grave violations of children’s rights – recruitment, abductions, killing and maiming continue unabated. Unexplored ordnance is a deadly threat for millions of Syrian children, while around 5 million children still require some form of humanitarian assistance.

What Is Happening In The Syrian Arab Republic?

UNICEF and partners are on the ground in Syria and across the region working to protect children, to help them cope with the impact of conflict and to resume their childhoods. This includes improving access to education and psychosocial support to the services to help children and caregivers to recover from trauma and to restore a sense of normalcy, as well as delivering critical humanitarian assistance in hard-to-reach areas.