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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 14:49 UTC

Tag: orphanded children

  • Monday, May 26th 2014 - 07:17 UTC

    UN praises Mujica's initiative to provide home for Syrian orphanded children

    President Mujica's offer “is a drop in the ocean, but each effort by each country is very important and welcome,” Alfaro said.

    The United Nations' refugee commission expressed gratitude that Uruguay is preparing to provide a new home for 100 children orphaned by Syria's civil war. Senior regional UNHCR official Michelle Alfaro said there are more than 2 million Syrian refugees in all, and Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan can't handle them all, so the agency hopes to relocate 30,000 this year.