These threats include sexual violence, child labour and early marriage. In addition, funding shortfalls mean that children living in camps and settlements are seeing their food rations shrink.
War Child works to protect and support children and young people in Uganda through projects designed to improve their psychosocial wellbeing. This approach - coupled with our education activities - enables children to develop coping skills, build their resilience and recover from the consequences of conflict. Improved psychosocial wellbeing allows children and young people to better engage in education - and enjoy increased livelihood opportunities as a result.
Initiative to enhance the protection and resilience of both refugee and vulnerable children and youth through specialised psychosocial support and mental health services. Global programme to provide conflict-affected children with quality education - no matter where they live. The programme sees children play curriculum-based educational games on tablets to learn in an effective and fun way.
Read more information about Can't Wait to Learn in Uganda here. Initiative to increase the number of young people from both refugee and host communities who can generate income through being self- employed in agriculture. Major consortium-led project designed to meet the needs of out-of-school children through accelerated education programming and psychosocial support activities.
Emma tries not to think about everything she experienced in South Sudan. Without emotion Emma talks about her final weeks in South Sudan - and the horrors she experienced during her journey to Uganda. She recalls how the group of women she escaped with were shot at. Fortunately we were left alone by them. But we came across new rebel groups time after time.
We had to give them all our belongings, our money, our livestock. Those who had nothing more to give were beaten. With nothing we finally arrived in Uganda.
Emma now lives with her aunt and cousin in the Bidibidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda. She is safer but finds it hard to adjust to her new life. And I miss the brick house we lived in and the food we ate. There was always plenty of food and it was nice.
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Secundaire navigatie Press Jobs Contact News. Our services are also accessed by significant numbers of children and young people from both the Palestinian refugee and Lebanese host communities. In our network of Safe Spaces, children can begin to recover from the experience of their displacement and access support to boost their psychosocial well-being.
With nothing we finally arrived in Uganda. Children and young people living in refugee settlements also face various threats to their rights to physical safety. In the first War Child convoy with equipment, and food to run a mobile bakery travelled to former Yugoslavia. Refugee children - from both Syrian and Palestinian communities - inside Lebanon also face significant barriers to accessing education. Starting off with mobile bakeries from the UK and with both rebuilding and music programmes from Holland, War Child projects expanded rapidly during the years. Can't Wait to Learn. Uganda is currently home to an estimated 1.
Project to set up a network of Safe Spaces where vulnerable children can play, learn and develop in peaceful environments. Global programme to provide conflict-affected children with quality education - no matter where they live. Children play curriculum-based educational games on tablets to learn in an effective and fun way. Read more information about Can't Wait to Learn in Lebanon here.
Project to strengthen parental wellbeing and enhance parenting skills to improve the psychosocial wellbeing of Syrian refugee children. Protection initiative to provide safe spaces where children can access psychosocial support and participate in recreational activities. Initiative to provide 2, disadvantaged children under the age of five with early childhood education ECE opportunities. Nour was forced to flee the conflict in Syria at the age of just seven. She now lives in Lebanon where she has begun to process her traumatic experiences.
Nour vividly remembers her life in Syria - including the bombings and the noise of overhead planes.
Nour struggled with upon arriving in Lebanon. Her life began to improve once she began attending her local Social Development Centre - where War Child provides psychosocial support for conflict-affected children. Nour met her new best friend Raghad at the centre. The two of them are inseparable - and Nour now feels like a normal twelve-year-old again.
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Secundaire navigatie Press Jobs Contact News. Meet us Batman The Kili-Challenge Seven Years of Suffering. Anas escaped seven years of civil war. This is her story. When playing is serious learning. Can't Wait to Learn. Read about this innovative programme.