Future On Hold Report

Lebanon’s worsening crisis is breaking children's spirits

Two children looking at the camera
UNICEF2023/Fouad-Choufany/Lebanon

Highlights

As Lebanon’s crisis keeps escalating for the fourth consecutive year, families are barely able to meet their most basic needs, are cutting down ever more on essential expenses and, in too many cases, are even sending their children out to work to help make ends meet.

UNICEF’s latest rapid assessment of children’s lives paints a dramatic picture of the desperate measures families are taking to cope with Lebanon’s destructive socio-economic crisis.

Future On Hold
Author(s)
UNICEF Lebanon
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English, Arabic

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