Supporting war affected children
Tomorrow I will be at an all day conference about war affected children. It is organized by the Manitoba School Counsellors’ Association.
Finally, somebody woke up in Winnipeg and realized the necessity to deal with the many issues related to immigrants and refugees and their settlement in a totally new world, new culture. More than a year ago, in May 2005, I wrote about the lacking willingness to address these problems.
I expect to meet some people that are genuinely interested helping those poor kids and the service providers who need to be trained in order to be able to do their job. These children often witnessed the killing of their relatives or families, were traumatized in every possible ways we barely can imagine. They really deserve to be helped!
By clicking on the poster image you can get the whole program, the speakers… Oh, and there will be a presentation of a movie made by a young African Winnipeger. (In another blog of mine I had a review of the film.)
I hope this conference is just the beginning of something bigger. Something better…
(On the weekend I’ll write more details about what happened.)
February 15th, 2007 at 11:26 (CST)
Without taking into account “child soldiers” which is very scary… torturers officially recognised now as victims (thanks to the Principe de Paris) - the US, even if invited to this conference (just finished 2 weeks ago), were unfortunately not present.
August 6th, 2007 at 3:04 (CDT)
I felt so pity for those children who have to face such traumatic event in an early age. If we an adult also could not face it, how can a child face it? War, drugs, killing, sexual harassment and so on can only bring disaster to children’s life in the future.
August 26th, 2007 at 21:11 (CDT)
Well said Diane. I couldn’t agree with you more. PBB should take more action regarding this matter.