"Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child-rights crisis," says Greta Thunberg, the acclaimed climate activist.
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NEW YORK, April 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Teen climate-change fighter Greta Thunberg aimed her activism at the coronavirus on Thursday, helping launch a campaign with the United Nations to help protect children from the pandemic with the purchase of soap, masks and gloves.
Thunberg used funds she has raised to combat climate change to donate $200,000 to the U.N.'s children's agency, UNICEF, along with Danish anti-poverty group Human Act to kick off the campaign, UNICEF announced.
"Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child-rights crisis," Thunberg said in a statement.
"It will affect all children, now and in the long-term, but vulnerable groups will be impacted the most."
Children will be affected severely by food shortages, strained health care systems, violence and lost education caused by COVID-19, she said...
The U.N. issued a report recently warning that while children have been largely spared from the direct health effects of the virus, the global economic downturn could result in hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020...
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Best wishes, Neil
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