BEIRUT, June 20 (Xinhua) -- More than 10 percent of the families in Lebanon are forced to send their children, some as young as six years old, to work in order to survive the country's socioeconomic crisis, said a report released on Tuesday by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
"The compounding crises facing the children of Lebanon are creating an unbearable situation -- breaking their spirit, damaging their mental health, and threatening to wipe out their hope for a better future," Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF's representative in Lebanon, was quoted by the report as saying.
