Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Representative, said on Wednesday that rendering assistance had become imperative because it had received only 16 per cent of the required 117 million dollars.
He said by the end of June, it would not have funding available to support the children.
Cappelaere renewed UNICEF’s call to international community to urgently step up its funding to help provide the necessary services to the children.
“The funds available to respond to the multiple and critical needs of children are running out this month.
“There are already critical gaps today in the provision of lifesaving services including water and sanitation, hygiene-education, treatment of malnutrition, support to separated and unaccompanied children as well as immunisation.
Cappelaere said that children represent over 60 per cent of the South Sudanese refugees, as well as over 60 per cent of the Sudanese returnees.
He said children in host Sudanese communities where camps have been established, have been generous by sharing their schools.
Cappelaere said in spite of it, the high demand for education was straining the existing facilities.
“Children are the main victims of the intensification of conflict in South Sudan.
“They have suffered from exposure to a brutal war which has uprooted them from their homes and separated them from their familiar environment.
“We cannot make these boys and girls suffer even more by failing to provide timely, quality and to scale up humanitarian assistance and protection, “he said. (PANA/NAN)
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