UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow at arcenciel – Wadi Khaled

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow meets Syrian child refugees in arcenciel-UNICEF center in the northern Wadi Khaled region of Lebanon, near the Syrian border.

Monday the 14th of January 2013, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow visited arcenciel center in Akkar, north of Lebanon. arcenciel and himaya in Wadi Khaled helps Syrian refugees with available supplies, as well as medical, dental and physiotherapy consultations. Technical aids are also distributed and group speach therapy is patiently provided to refugees mothers.

LBC coverage of the 14.1.2013 news broadcast

UNICEF coverage about Wadit Khaled's Syrien refugees

The American actress notes an "unbroken chain of stories of loss, grief, deprivation, frustration, anxiety and always the longing to go home", during her visit to Wadi Khaled on the border of the Syrian Arab Republic. Few days after a devastating storm had hit the region, the snow and the frigid temperatures were a stark reminder of what refugees had been enduring since they fled their homes – and lives – because of violence and conflict.

According the UN organization, violences in Syria deported some 600,000 refufees in the surrounding countries, of which Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Irak. Lebanon’s share is around 200,000 Syrian refugees who have been registered or are awaiting registration in Lebanon. Although safe, life is challenging. Home is now one room without windows that 11 family members shares.

Supplies urgently needed

Supplies are desperetly needed such as warm coats, blankets, shoes and medicine, as all of the refugees possessions were lost or left behind in Syria. UNICEF Representative in Lebanon Annamaria Laurini, who is accompanying Ms. Farrow on the journey, said, “The needs are immense, and we are distributing winter clothes that are so desperately needed. We are also trying hard to reach not only the Syrian refugees, but also the host Lebanese families who have shown an amazing sense of hospitality when their own resources are overstretched.”