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Sunday, August 20, 2017

You need to stay home


There have been times when I myself, had to skip school and stay home because of the bad weather, which honestly was something that used to make me happy, I could sleep in and not go to school for couple of days sometimes! But I was just a kid back then.
Children are more sensitive and vulnerable to air pollutants due to their physiological immaturity. It has been said that every year about 600,000 children under the age of five die due to air pollution around the world. UNICEF has also reported that one of every seven children live in the most toxic areas in terms of air pollution.



The air pollution in Iran and especially in Tehran sometimes hits the urgent alarming level and shuts down schools and cancels any sort of outdoor activity such as soccer games! Children and elderly are urged to stay home otherwise they need to wear face masks to the streets. It has been said that the air pollution threatens the lives of 11.5 million children in Iran.
Cities other than Tehran also are suffering from air pollution especially that some border with other countries and get hit by a lot of dust storms and temperature usually rises above 40 degrees Celsius on top of that.

Read more https://financialtribune.com/articles/people/53193/air-pollution-threatens-115m-children-in-iran

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