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ORF-online: refugee schools in Kurdistan Region

ORF-online: refugee schools in Kurdistan Region

Since August 2014 “Un Ponte Per” – an Italian partner organization of Caritas Austria – has opened five schools for refugees in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq. The schools focus specifically on the psychosocial support of traumatized refugee children: most of the pupils had to “witness killings, explosions and kidnappings first hand”, explains the director of the Al-Hekma-school, Sirak Abb Abbas. It is the aim of the school to counteract problems such as hyperactivity or aggressive behaviour through confidence-building measures and the creation of a sense of security.

Read the full article at ORF.at (German)

Copyright of the photo: ORF.at/Peter Prantner