Responses to young children in post-emergency situations

Further reading
Websites
The Child-to-Child Trust
The Child-to-Child Trust acts as the central
core of a worldwide movement of health and
education workers and programmes.
Since 1979, people who have seen Child-to-Child
projects know how much children and their
families benefit when children are involved and
trusted to help each other. This includes people
who have used the approach in disaster and
emergency situations and who have witnessed
how participating in simple health activities
can help to ease children out of the trauma of
witnessing terrible events.
Christian Children’s Fund (CCF)
ccf is an international organisation whose
mission is to create an environment of hope
and respect for needy children of all cultures
and beliefs in which they have opportunities to
achieve their full potential. ccf provides practical
tools for positive change – to children, families
and communities.
ccf has responded to the needs of children
in war-torn countries including Afghanistan,
Angola, East Timor, Guatemala, Liberia, Kosovo
and Sierra Leone. Food distribution, reintegration
of former child soldiers and abducted children,
family tracing, psychosocial interventions and
child-centered spaces are primary examples of
ccf assistance for traumatised children.
International Save the Children Alliance
The International Save the Children Alliance is
a network of all Save the Children organisations,
focusing on pooling resources, establishing
common policies and carrying out joint projects.
Save the Children focuses on support and
protection for children caught up in conflict or
emergencies by: a) providing health services and
other essentials such as food, fuel and shelter to
the most vulnerable children and their families;
b) working with and supporting children exposed
to violence; c) working to prevent child soldiering
and to help those who have direct experience of
fighting; d) raising local awareness of the short
and long-term dangers of landmines, which
kill indiscriminately – often for years after a
conflict has ended; e) caring for children who
have become separated from their families and
reuniting them as quickly as possible.
The following Save the Children organisations have
contributed to this issue of Early Childhood Matters:
Save the Children Sweden:
Save the Children uk:
Action for the Rights of Children (ARC)
arc is an inter-agency initiative, initiated by
unhcr and the International Save the Children
Alliance in 1997, and joined in 1999 by unicef
and the Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights. As of January 2002, the coordination
activities of the project are handled by
Save the Children.
Fourteen resource packs have been developed
focusing on the rights and needs of refugee and
displaced children. Among them, you can find a
revision of Resource Pack on Separated Children.
Available at:
ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line
gateway to information (documents and maps)
on humanitarian emergencies and disasters.
An independent vehicle of information,
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