Zerrougui tours a number of Shelter Centers in Damascus and Its Countryside

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DAMASCUS, (ST)- UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, on Saturday inspected the situation of the services provided to the children of the families staying at the temporary shelter centers in Damascus and its countryside after having fled the armed terrorist groups.

Zerrougui and the accompanying delegation tored a number of these centers at al-Falloujeh School in al-Yarmouk Camp and Ghaliyeh Farhat School in Barzeh in Damascus and the Consultative Center of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent in Jaramana in the countryside.

“there is a  necessity to keep children away from the acts of violence and the crises as they are the only guarantor of the future of the communities,”Zerrougui stressed.

“everybody bears the responsibility to protect children from the negative effects of crises as they are the spectrum that is most affected by crises,”she added.

Zerrougui arrived in Damascus on Friday on a 4-day visit in response to an invitation by the Syrian government to assess the direct impact of the crisis in Syria on children.

Zerrougui is due to meet a number of Syrian officials and representatives of UN organizations,based  in Syria, in addition to representatives of NGOs.

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