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Comfort for Kids — Gaza Youth Support Materials

Country: West Bank/Gaza

Sector: Youth Development

Mercy Corps West Bank and Gaza is proud to announce the publication of three Comfort for Kids (C4K) resources: a new children's workbook for children who experienced the Gaza War, and two pamphlets to help support the needs of children experiencing anticipatory anxiety.

These children in Gaza participated in our Comfort for Kids programme in the aftermath of the Israel-Hamas fighting in early 2009. Photo: Mercy Corps

C4K was created in 2001 to support the needs of trauma-affected children after 9/11. It has subsequently been incorporated into five other post-disaster settings to help children affected by hurricanes (USA and Guatemala, 2005), earthquakes (Peru 2007 and China 2008) and, most recently, as part of the response to the war in Gaza (2009).

The Gaza materials were developed under a DFID project by the Mercy Corps Gaza psychosocial team, representatives of the Children's Psychological Health Centre (who co-developed children's workbooks for Hurricane Katrina, Guatemala and China) and Griffen Samples, C4K Senior Technical Advisor. The workbook and pamphlets are available in both Arabic and English.

The primary goal of each C4K response has been to build local capacity to support the needs of trauma-affected children. Information is conveyed through highly interactive training sessions and supplemented by publications tailored for each response. The first round of the DFID project in Gaza served around 4,000 children and 10,000 professionals and parents.

For more information, please contact Mirjam Hendrikse in the Mercy Corps Gaza office.

• C4KParentPamphlet.pdf
  PDF Format, 1.92 MB
• C4KProfessionalBookletArabic.pdf
  PDF Format, 3.76 MB
• C4KWorkbookArabic1of2.pdf
  PDF Format, 3.56 MB
• C4KWorkbookArabic2of2.pdf
  PDF Format, 5.22 MB
• C4KWorkbookGazaEnglish1of4.pdf
  PDF Format, 4.77 MB
• C4KWorkbookGazaEnglish2of4.pdf
  PDF Format, 4.38 MB
• C4KWorkbookGazaEnglish3of4.pdf
  PDF Format, 2.31 MB
• C4KWorkbookGazaEnglish4of4.pdf
  PDF Format, 6.6 MB
• C4KParentPamphletArabic.pdf
  PDF Format, 2.19 MB
• C4KProfessionalBooklet.pdf
  PDF Format, 5.24 MB