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As we head into World Children’s Day, I’m thinking about kids like Fatima and Emilia. They are among the millions of children who have suffered devastating loss, their childhoods brutally disrupted.

At just 10 years old, Fatima has already seen her country go through multiple cycles of violence. After seven months of full-scale armed combat, Sudan is now home to the largest number of internally displaced people in the world — more than 5 million people, half of them children. More than anything, she wants peace and normalcy:

A quote from Fatima that says the following: I miss a lot of things like my toys and my dolls. I want to go home.

Six-year-old Emilia is staying in a UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) school being used as a shelter in the Gaza Strip. She evacuated with her family from their home in Beit Hanoun on the northeast edge of Gaza, telling UNICEF:

There is nothing like home, but at least we are safe here. I played with my friends who also had to flee their homes to this school. We are too many here.

Children like Fatima and Emilia are bearing the brunt of a world in crisis — but you can help UNICEF deliver urgent relief and develop solutions that will protect children today and every new day to come.

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Thank you for always being there for children,

Shannon Coffey
UNICEF USA