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‘Sawa Aqwa’ (StrongerTogether): A multi‐site randomized controlled trial of a brief family systemic intervention for adolescent mental health in Lebanon
  • Mental health and psychosocial support

‘Sawa Aqwa’ (StrongerTogether): A multi‐site randomized controlled trial of a brief family systemic intervention for adolescent mental health in Lebanon

There are no evaluated family-based mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions for adolescents in Southwest Asia (known as the Middle East), and few whole-family interventions in low- and middle-income countries, despite consistent evidence for the impact of family support on mental health and well-being. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief family systemic mental health intervention, deliverable by non-specialists in mental health.

Three Months On: War Child’s Response to the war in Lebanon

Three Months On: War Child’s Response to the war in Lebanon

As the Middle East crisis enters its fourth month, War Child and our partners, Alawite Islamic Charity Association (AICA), Development for People and Nature (DPNA), The Lebanese Organization for Studies and Training, and Nusaned continue to reach displaced families across Lebanon amid ongoing hostilities and a deeply unsafe environment for children.

Rebuilding safety and childhoods in Gaza: Kareem’s story
  • Mental health and psychosocial support

Rebuilding safety and childhoods in Gaza: Kareem’s story

In Gaza, children and their families are being supported not only to return to learning, but to rebuild a sense of safety, confidence, and hope. This is the purpose of War Child's project Reconnecting to Education implemented by a local partner in Gaza, with support from READ Foundation.

Sudan, Three Years on: NGOs Call for Intensified Action as the World’s Largest Displacement Crisis Grows.
  • Advocacy

Sudan, Three Years on: NGOs Call for Intensified Action as the World’s Largest Displacement Crisis Grows.

Three years into the brutal war in Sudan, tens of thousands of children, women, and men have been killed, starved, and maimed in what is today the world’s largest and fastest-growing displacement crisis. With the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan and its impacts across the region showing no signs of abating, NGOs working across the region are alarmed at the insufficient funding response and diplomatic attention that this conflict and the consequent regional crisis is receiving.