Orlando Bloom, who recently visited Syrian child refugees as United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) goodwill ambassador, said that kids are seeing far too much violence and torture and they need help.
'The Lord of the Rings' star told People Magazine that all refugee families wanted was to go home and their kids were desperate for an education.
The 37-year-old actor said that the real issue was donor fatigue which was another crisis in the Middle East.
Bloom, who has been on six field missions with UNICEF since 2007 asserted that there were still children who were dying, so it was not something that one could switch on and off and it was not something to be ignored.
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