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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2025
Children skipping meals in majority of families in Lebanon, UNICEF says

Middle East

Reuters
23 November, 2021, 06:25 pm
Last modified: 23 November, 2021, 06:31 pm

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Children skipping meals in majority of families in Lebanon, UNICEF says

Children have been hit hard by the country's deep economic crisis exacerbated by the global coronavirus pandemic which has left about eight in 10 people poor and threatens the education of some 700,000 children including 260,000 Lebanese, the report said

Reuters
23 November, 2021, 06:25 pm
Last modified: 23 November, 2021, 06:31 pm
A woman begs with her child on a sidewalk in Beirut, Lebanon November 18, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
A woman begs with her child on a sidewalk in Beirut, Lebanon November 18, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

More than half of families in Lebanon had at least one child who skipped a meal by October 2021 amid a "dramatic deterioration of living conditions", the UN's children's fund said in a report released on Tuesday.

Children have been hit hard by the country's deep economic crisis exacerbated by the global coronavirus pandemic which has left about eight in 10 people poor and threatens the education of some 700,000 children including 260,000 Lebanese, the report said.

The multifaceted crisis, rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement, has led to a breakdown in the provision of basic services such as electricity and water.

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Nearly half of households had insufficient drinking water by October 2021, the report said, with a third of them citing cost as the main factor.

"The staggering magnitude of the crisis must be a wake-up call," said Yukie Mokuo, UNICEF representative in Lebanon.

The report noted that less than three in 10 families had received social assistance, leading them to take "desperate measures".

The proportion of Lebanese families sending children to work increased sevenfold to seven per cent between April and October, the report said.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati's government has been slow to implement social safety programmes including a $246 million World bank-funded one adopted by parliament in March and a $556 million ration card scheme backed by the legislature in June.

"Urgent action is needed to ensure no child goes hungry, becomes sick or has to work instead of receiving an education," Mokuo said.

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