UNICEF: Psychosocial relief in child-friendly safe spaces

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NEW YORK, USA, 18 May 2009 Worldwide, an estimated 18 million children are currently displaced by armed conflict and natural disasters. As soon as immediate health and safety concerns have been attended to, emergency situations require a special level of care for emotionally distressed children. Children's overall feelings of well-being are intimately tied to their sense of normalcy and routine. Through child-friendly safe spaces in crisis and post-crisis situations, UNICEF provides educational equipment and materials to re-establish learning and recreational activities, as well as psychosocial support teams of professionals to help children cope. This year in the Gaza Strip, for example, UNICEF-supported psychosocial programmes will reach tens of thousands of children who experienced more than three weeks of intensive bombardment and military operations last December and January. The conflict left many children with acute levels of stress, fear and anxiety. To read the full story, visit http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_49712.html
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