After a very busy start to the year, catching up on training trips and running a successful conference for our CATT counsellors in Uganda (pictured), we are now in full fundraising mode. Although most of what we want to achieve in the Middle East, Armenia and Uganda during the remainder of 2022 is fully funded, we need new money to begin working on behalf of child refugees in Eastern Europe, and to follow up the training we began earlier this year in Colombia and the Gambia.
So we are now preparing funding applications and planning activities for the Autumn which will enable us to commit to projects in 2023. In particular, we want to translate our materials into Ukrainian and Polish so we can train psychologists and counsellors to treat refugee children suffering from the symptoms of PTSD. We are also completing a research project to evaluate the impact of our past ten years of our work in Uganda. Here we now have 150 trained CATT counsellors and 11 trainers, and trauma work there is now fully sustainable in-country. In Jordan, face to face anxiety and resilience training is beginning again for NGOs working with children, and in Colombia the Spanish team has re-run Children & War’s teaching for recovery training for the Government Institute of Family Welfare. Together with our partners we are repairing the lives of so many children!