Why kids in war-torn Yemen are raising money for the U.N.
By Melissa Etehad June 15 at 2:08 PM
Children in Yemen are fundraising for the United Nations. Yes, you heard right. A group of children in a war-torn country is raising money for the large peace-keeping organization. But in photos posted on Twitter, dozens of Yemeni children can be seen placing coins and cash on top of a large U.N. flag on the ground. Holding posters of the United Nations, the group of children appears to be holding a sit-in outside the U.N. office in the country's capital of Sanaa.
The campaign, allegedly spearheaded by the mayor of Sanaa, protests the U.N.'s announcement last week that it plans to remove Saudi Arabia from its list of those harming children. And it seems to be aimed at shaming the United Nations for caving under financial pressure after Saudi Arabia and other coalition members allegedly threatened to cut off funding to the United Nations.
“It's a fundraising campaign to help the U.N. do its job without financial pressure from Saudi Arabia,” Internet users in Yemen are said to have explained.
In the “blacklist,” which is actually a U.N. report on children and armed conflict, the United Nations found the Saudi Arabia-led coalition responsible for 60 percent of the casualties, of which there were 510 deaths and 667 injuries of children. There was a “sixfold increase in the number of children killed” last year when compared with 2014, the report said.
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