Published : 13-06-2022
UNRWA education program organized an awareness campaign entitled “Health is Wealth” in an attempt to combat the increase of cigarette smoking among adolescents.
250 students from UNRWA schools in Homs, Hama and Latakia attended presentations delivered as part of the campaign.
Campaigners warned of the harmful effects of smoking and stressed the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle.
Scores of Palestinian children have been spotted taking up cigarettes and hookah in displacement camps across war-torn Syria as a means to escape the scenes of violence and dislocation.
Many children have dropped out of school as a result of the bloody warfare in Syria, which has had traumatic fallouts on Palestinian refugee children in and outside the Syrian territories.
Post-traumatic stress disorders, mental psychosis, sleeplessness, nightmares, eating disorders, and intense fear have all been among the symptoms with which Palestinian children have been diagnosed after they lost their homes, have had their parents killed in the war, underwent limb amputation, and witnessed daily scenes of death and destruction.
AGPS calls on all international institutions and NGOs, namely UNICEF and UNRWA, to take serious measures in order to provide Palestinian children with the physical and moral protection quite urgently needed at such turbulent times.
Palestinian children from Syria who fled with their parents to neighboring countries have also faced severe psychological breakdowns owing to protracted displacement and economic hardship.
UNRWA education program organized an awareness campaign entitled “Health is Wealth” in an attempt to combat the increase of cigarette smoking among adolescents.
250 students from UNRWA schools in Homs, Hama and Latakia attended presentations delivered as part of the campaign.
Campaigners warned of the harmful effects of smoking and stressed the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle.
Scores of Palestinian children have been spotted taking up cigarettes and hookah in displacement camps across war-torn Syria as a means to escape the scenes of violence and dislocation.
Many children have dropped out of school as a result of the bloody warfare in Syria, which has had traumatic fallouts on Palestinian refugee children in and outside the Syrian territories.
Post-traumatic stress disorders, mental psychosis, sleeplessness, nightmares, eating disorders, and intense fear have all been among the symptoms with which Palestinian children have been diagnosed after they lost their homes, have had their parents killed in the war, underwent limb amputation, and witnessed daily scenes of death and destruction.
AGPS calls on all international institutions and NGOs, namely UNICEF and UNRWA, to take serious measures in order to provide Palestinian children with the physical and moral protection quite urgently needed at such turbulent times.
Palestinian children from Syria who fled with their parents to neighboring countries have also faced severe psychological breakdowns owing to protracted displacement and economic hardship.
