EU Children of Peace initiative: President Barroso announces Nobel Peace Prize projects to help 23,000 children affected by war and conflicts

EU News 661/2012

18 December 2012
IP/12/1392
Brussels

The European Union's Nobel Peace prize money will fund four projects under the EU Children of Peace initiative and details of the projects were announced today by Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission.

The attribution of the award money to children affected by conflict was an unanimous decision of the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Parliament Martin Schulz and of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy.

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Together the projects will benefit from €2 million (which includes additional EU funding). They will reach out to over 23,000 conflict-affected children worldwide and will provide access to basic education and child-friendly spaces:

• Around 4,000 Syrian refugee children in camps at the border between Iraq and Syria;

• More than 5,000 Colombian children, most of them refugees in Ecuador;

• 11,000 Congolese children displaced in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and refugees in Ethiopia;

• And 3,000 Pakistani children in the conflicted-affected north of the country.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-1392_en.htm?locale=en

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