ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO CONTRIBUTE to those raising school supplies for Baghdad can be found here.

On the humanitarian front, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned today that the situation in Baghdad was "ripe for exploitation of children" following a flurry of news reports indicating an increase in the number of children on the streets of the capital.

In the chaos of the post-war environment, UNICEF said, normal community networks for the protection of children were not fully functioning, and the agency strongly supported getting all Iraqi children back to school as a way of protecting them from exploitation and injury.