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Have you ever wondered what happens when child protection actors have zero face-to-face access to the children and families they support?
Plan International Lebanon faced that exact problem in March 2020, when the government imposed a curfew and state of emergency across the country. In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Elissa Alhassrouny, a child protection specialist with Plan International Lebanon,…
In this article and accompanying radio piece, NPR sheds light on the issues facing children who have lost one or both parents as a result of an ISIS attack in Mosul, Iraq and other attacks around the country. "There are no reliable statistics showing exactly how many civilians were killed in the battle for Mosul. But there are partial records showing that thousands of orphans were left behind," says the article. "While many of the orphaned children have been absorbed into the families of relatives who care for them, some are left to fend for themselves."