{"id":993,"date":"2016-01-05T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T08:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/young-refugees-struggle-to-hold-on-to-their-childhood\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T08:59:31","slug":"young-refugees-struggle-to-hold-on-to-their-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/young-refugees-struggle-to-hold-on-to-their-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Young refugees struggle to hold on to their childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly one in four of the more than 1 million refugees and migrants who have arrived in Europe by sea this year is a child, according to the UN Refugee Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the dangerous journeys that refugees and migrants make, children are the most vulnerable to sickness, injury, violence, exploitation, trafficking and death.<\/p>\n

In addition to the immediate physical threats that children forced to flee their homes face, they are also at risk of deep-rooted emotional scars.<\/p>\n

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See also: Refugees’ life jackets are transformed into message of peace on Greek island<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Children who are living in or displaced by conflict or undertaking perilous journeys often miss out on the elements of a child\u2019s life which have the most positive impact on their wellbeing \u2014 such as playing games with their friends or learning in school.<\/p>\n

If young children aren\u2019t given the opportunity to play and be children, they are at a real danger of living in a state of toxic stress, which can cause lasting damage on their development. Small comforts, such as toys, can help children regain a sense of normalcy. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nearly one in four of the more than 1 million refugees and migrants who have arrived in Europe by sea this year is a child, according to the UN Refugee Agency. During the dangerous journeys that refugees and migrants make, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[525,1,72,251,359,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-other","category-pics","category-refugees","category-syria","category-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}