ethicAl
counsellors trained to help children tackle psychologi-
cal and emotional problems. Recreational activities
“If someone knocked on the
such as music shows and games involve the children classroom door, the chIldren
directly, while their parents participate in workshops
would be terrIfIed and hIde
on how to best protect and support them.
At the centre, children can discuss their feelings of
beneath theIr desks.”
pain, fear, war and death. Many of the children relate
stories where friends or relatives have been killed as would be terrified and hide beneath their desks.
a result of the occupation. Muslim Aid’s Emergency Wafa Jabr who teaches English at Noor al-Ma’rifa
& Special Programme Officer, Abdi Qani Hussain, relates some tragic observations. “After the war, the
emphasises the importance of such centres, as they act children now are always scared. Some of them started
as a safe haven where children who feel isolated and to wet themselves, and others became aggressive.
depressed can come together and “talk to people who We have arranged for them to have psychological
understand.” discharge sessions with the psychotherapist, taken
School teachers see the magnitude of trauma them for trips and giving them psychological support
firsthand and are instrumental in the rehabilitation and home visits. They are getting better by the Grace
process. Noor al-Ma’rifa Special Education School of Allah.”
took some hits during the incursion, which caused For those unable to reach these centres, a hotline is
the children to feel the fear in what should normally available providing psychological treatment services
be a place of security. In the months afterwards, if whilst educational pamphlets will be distributed
someone knocked on the classroom door, the children to help families deal with conflict, protect their ÿ
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