<p align="justify">The UN children's agency has announced the appointment of its youngest goodwill ambassador 19-year-old Syrian refugee and education activist Muzoon Almellehan.<br /><br />UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth said that Muzoon is the first goodwill envoy with official refugee status.<br /><br />UNICEF said she received support from the agency while she was living in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.</p>.<p align="justify">She follows in the footsteps the late actress and goodwill ambassador Audrey Hepburn who was also supported by UNICEF as a child.<br /><br />Muzoon said when she fled Syria she only took her school books with her.<br /><br />"As a refugee, I saw what happens when children are forced into early marriage or manual labor," she said.<br /><br />Working with UNICEF, she said, will help to "give these children a voice and to get them into school."</p>
<p align="justify">The UN children's agency has announced the appointment of its youngest goodwill ambassador 19-year-old Syrian refugee and education activist Muzoon Almellehan.<br /><br />UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth said that Muzoon is the first goodwill envoy with official refugee status.<br /><br />UNICEF said she received support from the agency while she was living in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.</p>.<p align="justify">She follows in the footsteps the late actress and goodwill ambassador Audrey Hepburn who was also supported by UNICEF as a child.<br /><br />Muzoon said when she fled Syria she only took her school books with her.<br /><br />"As a refugee, I saw what happens when children are forced into early marriage or manual labor," she said.<br /><br />Working with UNICEF, she said, will help to "give these children a voice and to get them into school."</p>