Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham:

That cannot be calculated at all. It can also have adverse developments in those communities because, for example, because when people have no opportunities, education or access to livelihoods and employment they are much more vulnerable to being recruited by extremist groups. We see this in the Sahel, for example. It is devastating to think about a child being brought up in an environment like that. Every day is a struggle. For those mothers, it is a matter of hoping that when dinner time comes all of their children will be around the table. Many of them live in situations, such as in Gaza today, where they do not know whether their children will be alive later in the day. I have a Palestinian colleague who works in my organisation whose wife has lost 17 members of her extended family in Gaza. I cannot even imagine what these people go through.

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