Tagged: childhood adversity

A boy with his back to the camera watches a boat filled with people as it comes ashore

The leap that started my future

Children in emergencies

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I have been living in the Netherlands for a little over two years now. Because I had to flee from Syria, I regularly get questions like: “How is the situation in Syria?”, “What do you think of the Netherlands?”, or “What are the differences between the two countries?” But every time I try to answer, more… Read more →←
A girl smiles for the camera as her friend looks on

The quest for safety: Displaced Syrian children in camps

Children in emergencies

By Anonymous

Children pay the highest price for war. They suffer from the fear of death and injury. Those who survive are grieving for lost loved ones, leaving them with lifelong psychological scars. Working as a health and nutrition facilitator with UNICEF in north-eastern Syria for the past three years, I have seen many families uprooted from their… Read more →←

Stopping childhood adversity from becoming a life sentence

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Even the most hard-nosed economist will now concede investment in good early childhood has the biggest return on public investment. But what about a reverse argument that failure to invest in prevention of bad early childhood experience is the most costly oversight a government can make? This is the subject of my recent TedX talk in… Read more →←

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