87 million children under 7 have known nothing but conflict - UNICEF
NEW YORK, 24 March 2016 – More than 86.7 million children under the age of 7 have spent their entire lives in conflict zones, putting their brain development at risk, UNICEF said today. During the first 7 years of life a child's brain has the potential to activate 1,000 brain cells every second. Each one of those cells, known as neurons, has the…