Amidst the bombings and the fighting and the crushing hunger, life is fragile in Syria. But a baby could also die from something as simple as the power being cut off to a hospital’s incubators.
Five years into the devastating civil war, the United Nations estimates that more than 250,000 people have been killed and more than half of the country’s citizens have left their homes. More than 6 million people are displaced inside Syria, while 4.6 million people have fled the country.
“It’s pretty horrendous,” says Michael Klosson, vice president for policy and humanitarian response at Save the Children. “Potentially you could lose a generation who are going to be needed to rebuild the country.”
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