More CATT trainers to help children across Syria

Summer has arrived, and with it more terrible accounts of the suffering of children in even more places around the world. We are doing the best we can to fund training where it is needed, but at our June trustee meeting only one new project out of a possible seven could be approved within this year’s resources. So we continue to promote our Wings of Hope Appeal https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/acti-wings-of-hope which remains £3,000 below target even though we are well ahead with planning training in Cairo in the Autumn. More positively, the fall of the Assad regime has enabled CATT training in Syria to be planned for Aleppo and Damascus in August, using funding secured by our partner, the SAMS Foundation. At the end of this project we will have 7 new Syrian CATT trainers working across the country to help children traumatised by years of war and growing up under a repressive government. And we are being commissioned to run training for a number of other NGOs, using online training techniques to get help to people who work in dangerous or inaccessible places. We add value and enhance the expertise of those working for our training partners who are doing more than just lip-service to ‘trauma awareness’, by actively intervening to relieve their trauma symptoms and change what happens next in the lives of so many children.

Child in northern Syria processes his earthquake experience using CATT