GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations asked for emergency funds on Friday to help uprooted Iraqi children attend schools in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and other countries hosting families who have fled war in Iraq.
In a joint appeal, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF asked donors for $129 million to get some 155,000 young Iraqi refugees into the classroom for the 2007-08 school year, starting in late August.
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