UNICEF-OSU

This eight year old was born in Aleppo and was forced to flee her home with her family after conflict broke out in a city that had previously been a privileged community. Since moving to a small apartment, her family struggles with lack of clean water and electricity. Every day, Huda helps her mother and father bring water home from a nearby water filling point installed by UNICEF. Huda remembers with frustration a time when she was wheeling cartons of water back home and she slipped and fell, “The cart flipped upside-down, and the water spilled all over the street.” Nearly five million others in Aleppo, half of which are children, face the same issues as Huda and her family.​

 

Despite all of these challenges, Huda wants to become a pediatrician when she grows up. Like children in every country across the world she has big dreams for her future and UNICEF hopes to help give Huda her childhood back as well as opportunities for her future. UNICEF and its partners have brought in up to 1.5 billion liters of water and supplied 4 million liters of fuel for the pumping stations to give Huda and other children like her access to the water that they need to live and grow. I hope to come together with many other students as a community to raise money and awareness for girls like Huda and to remember that children are not just statistics and numbers; they are people with amazing stories and voices that need to be heard. For the I Pledge campaign I am pledging to donate the money I would usually use to buy coffee every day to UNICEF to help fund their efforts for clean water access. While my donation is small, I believe that if we work together we can make a difference in these children’s lives. Please join me and #PledgeForEveryChild

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