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Over 8 Mln Children in Conflict Zones to Get Access to Education in 2016

© AP Photo / MAHMOUD TAHAA Syrian child eats as he sits near a convoy of trucks from the World Food Programme and UNICEF carrying international aid as they drive in the countryside of the Homs district en route to the rebel held area of Al-Rastan north of the central Syrian city of Homs, on April 21, 2015.
A Syrian child eats as he sits near a convoy of trucks from the World Food Programme and UNICEF carrying international aid as they drive in the countryside of the Homs district en route to the rebel held area of Al-Rastan north of the central Syrian city of Homs, on April 21, 2015. - Sputnik International
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More than 8 million children living in conflict and crisis-torn areas, will have an access to education in 2016, more than half of them are children from Syria, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a press release.

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UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — For implementation of the goal, UNICEF is seeking $2.8 billion that the Fund expects to collect this year. At the moment, about 24 million children across the whole world attend school.

"This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number of children in crises who are given access to education – from 4.9 million at the beginning of 2015 to 8.2 million in 2016. More than half — 5 million – will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouring countries," the press release read.

Nearly 24 million of the 109.2 million children of primary and lower secondary school age living in conflict zones, are missing out on their education, according to the UN data.

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