Emergency Help - for children in crisis situations
Emergency Education: Crisis intervention for psycho-traumatised children and youngsters in war and disaster areas
Overview:
Emergency Education:
Introduction - Conception - Organigram
Crisis deployments
02/2010 - Haiti: Emergency Education deployment after the earthquake (10.02.-25.02.2010).
11/2009 - Indonesia: Emergency Education deployment in the earthquake region of West Sumatra (11.11.-25.11.2009).
07/2009 - Gaza: Emergency Education deployment in the Gaza Strip.
02/2009 - Gaza: Emergency Education deployment in the Gaza Strip.
06/2008 - China: Emergency Education deployment in the earthquake region of Shifang/Sichuan (21.06.-05.07.2008).
11/2007 - Lebanon: Emergency Education training in Shatila and Baalbek (06.-07.11.2007).
04/2007 - Lebanon: Emergency Education deployment in Baalbek (31.03.-15.04.2007).
11/2006 - Lebanon: Emergency Education deployment in Beirut (28.10.-19.11.2006).
08/2006 - Lebanon: Disabled youth return to Beirut (07.-10.08.2006).
07/2006 - Lebanon: Evacuation of youth from Beirut and Baalbek (13.-19.07.2006).
Emergency Education
Introduction
Many tragic events such as war and natural disasters take place around the world – and children suffer the most as a result of the same. In 2006, as we were hosting eight “Waldorf” non-profit organizations in Berlin, a pedagogue held a report on her work with traumatized children in Kosovo. Her report sparked the desire to work in the field of emergency education.
Due to the voluntary work of some engaged specialists, we were able to initiate our first pilot project after the martial conflicts in Lebanon in 2006. For a period of three weeks, we worked with traumatized children to prevent post-traumatic effects. Yet another action took place in Chengdu, China following the earthquake in June/July 2008.
As a consequence of the war in Gaza in December 2008 we thought it necessary to work with war-traumatized children in Gaza. A team composed of psychologists, teachers and therapists was formed to conduct emergency education in January and July 2009. Due to the ongoing conflicts and the situation in Gaza, we are currently trying to establish a long-term project to contribute to a sustainable improvement of the psychological state of the Palestinian children.
Following the earthquake in West-Sumatra, Indonesia on 30th September, 2009 the Friends of Waldorf Education sent an eleven-man crisis intervention team to West-Sumatra to help psycho-traumatized children, using the methods of Waldorf Education.
We are highly motivated to extend the field of “Emergency Education”, so that we are in a position to offer our pedagogic-therapy to those who are in need.
Conception
German: Akuthilfe für traumatisierte Kinder und Jugendliche in Krisensituationen. Freunde der Erziehungskunst, 2007 (PDF, 37 pp.).
English/Chinese: Emergency educational interventions for psychologically traumatised children in crisis regions. Outline of an approach to pedagogical-therapeutic intervention in acute war and catastrophe contexts, based on Waldorf Education. Friends of Waldorf Education, 2008 (PDF, 23 pp.).
France: Quand des mondes s’écroulent. Interventions pédagogiques d’urgence pour des enfants psychotraumatisés dans des régions en crise. Croquis et concept d’une intervention pédago-thérapeutique immédiate dans des situations de guerre et de catastrophe basée sur la pédagogie Waldorf. Freunde der Erziehungskunst (PDF, 20 pp.).
Organigram
Organigram of the Emergency Education crisis intervention (PDF).
Crisis deployments
February 2010: Haiti
Haiti: Emergency Education deployment after the earthquake (10.02.-25.02.2010).
Report: Maimed, despairing, disturbed and deserted.
Pictures.
November 2009: Indonesia
Indonesia: Emergency Education deployment in the earthquake region of West Sumatra.
Report: „First aid for the soul”.
Press releases (German): 03.11.09, 23.11.09.
Press articles: not yet.
Fotos
July 2009: Gaza
Emergency Education deployment in the Gaza Strip, Palestine/Israel (16.07.-27.07.2009).
Report: Education on ruins.
Short videos (8-30 sec): Round dance | Round dance | Playing with ball | Eurythmy | Group.
Press articles: Badische Neueste Nachrichten vom 4.8.2009.
Documents:
Recommendation letter of the Department for Foreign Affairs.
Letter of thanks of the co-operation partners in Gaza.
Fotos
February 2009: Gaza
Emergency Education deployment in the Gaza Strip, Palestine/Israel (01.02.-05.02.2009).
Report: "Welcome to Gaza". Emergency Education in the ruins of Gaza.
Call for donations and first press release.
Press articles:
- swr2 vom 29.1.2009 (interview with Bernd Ruf).
- NNA vom 7.2.2009.
- Badische Neueste Nachrichten vom 11.2.2009 (JPG, PDF).
Documents:
- Recommendation letter from the Department for Foreign Affairs from 21.1.2009 (Arabic).
- Letter of thanks from the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme from 15.2.2009.
- Letter of thanks from Nabil El Sharif, Director of the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, from 16.2.2009.
Fotos
June 2008: China
Emergency Education deployment in the earthquake region of Shifang/Sichuan, China (21.06.-5.07.2008).
Press release of Friends of Waldorf Education: Emergency Education after the earthquake in China.
Press release of Friends of Waldorf Education: "When worlds are collapsing“.
Press articles:
- Badische Neueste Nachrichten from 22.07.2008.
- Anthroposophie weltweit 7/2008 from 05.09.2008 / Teil 2.
- Erziehungskunst 9/2008 ("Wenn Welten einstürzen").
Letter of thanks of the Department for Foreign Affairs in Shifang (JPG, PDF) and German translation (JPG, PDF)
Fotos
November 2007: Lebanon
Training in Emergency Education in Shatila and Baalbek, Lebanon (06.-07.11.2007).
Report from Susanne Merzenich.
April 2007: Lebanon
Emergency Education deployment in Baalbek, Lebanon (31.03.-15.04.2007).
Press release of Friends of Waldorf Education: From Berlin to Baalbek.
Fotos
November 2006: Lebanon
Emergency Education deployment in Beirut, Lebanon (28.10.-19.11.2006).
Press release of Friends of Waldorf Education: The Art of Education as Emergency Aid.
Press article: Arabische Zeitung from 08.11.2006.
Fotos
August 2006: Lebanon
Disabled youth return to Beirut, Lebanon (07.-10.08.2006).
Press release of Friends of Waldorf Education: Disabled youth return to Beirut.
Press articles (>> all at once):
- Press service of the town of Stuttgart from 01.08.2006.
- Stuttgarter Zeitung from 05.08.2006.
- Mannheimer Morgen from 05.08.2006.
- Badische Zeitung from 07.08.2006.
- Stuttgarter Zeitung from 12.08.2006.
Letter of protection from UNESCO from 04.08.2006.
Letter of the town of Stuttgart from 04.08.2006.
Fotos
July 2006: Lebanon
Evacuation of youngsters from Beirut and Baalbek, Lebanon (13.-19.07.2006).
Press release of Friends of Waldorf Education: In a dramatic mission: Waldorf helpers saved from Lebanon.
Press article: Sächsische Zeitung from 10.08.2006.
Letter of thanks from Matthias Galle from 15.08.2006.
Fotos