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03/11/2020
Driving our Care System forward: the STRETCH intervention
March 11, 2020War Child is working to develop an approach to tackle stigmatisation - and mitigate its real world effects. Our research has found that existing approaches to tackle stigma too often overlook the specific needs of children and youth - but what can we learn from the existing body of evidence? We take a look...
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03/08/2020
Stitch by stitch: Young women create a brighter future
March 8, 2020Today, on International Women’s Day, Nyayoo(17), Nyachwad (18) and Nyaou (18) are joining millions of women and men, girls and boys worldwide in empowering themselves to bring about a brighter future.
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02/19/2020
Can't Wait to Learn among top 100 Social Innovations
Feb. 19, 2020Can’t Wait to Learn - the e-learning programme driven by War Child Holland and coalition partners - has been chosen as one of the top 100 innovations to help solve the world's most critical social challenges.
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02/04/2020
Our Work Around the World in 2019
Feb. 4, 2020Thanks to your support, War Child made significant progress last year in our mission to improve the resilience and wellbeing of children living with violence and armed conflict. From individual successes to the roll out of international programmes, we present our key achievements during 2019...
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01/24/2020
International Day of Education – A right for all children
Jan. 24, 2020Today, more than 32 million children and youth are out of school as a result of armed conflict. Denied their right to an education, exposed to violence - these children often experience mental health and psychological problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. War Child's Can't Wait to Learn programme addresses this critical education emergency.
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12/10/2019
War Child developing new play methods in Eastern Africa
Dec. 10, 2019War Child is helping to develop new methods of learning through play for children affected by armed violence in East Africa. There are as many as three million refugees in the region, often spending a decade or more of their lives away from their homes, which means a generation of children is deprived of education and a childhood.
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12/03/2019
Vivianne Miedema new War Child ambassador
Dec. 3, 2019Vivianne Miedema is War Child’s newest ambassador. The striker for Arsenal and the Netherlands women’s national football team will commit to support children affected by violence and armed conflict, by, among other things, taking the lead in our sports fundraising activities.
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