Sentences with phrase «about refugee children»

Here are the the main things we know about refugee children in Europe, as taken from a survey of 870 inhabitants of the Calais Jungle by Refugee Rights Data Project.

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The children, some of whom are refugees who've relocated with their families to San Antonio via Catholic Charities, lit up, voicing their excitement about having a hands - on role in the project.

«The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember,» Lamott wrote, listing events like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, Palestinian children killed by rocket fire while playing football on the beach and protests against young refugees showing up at the U.S. border.»

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

You can also talk to your child about refugees who are fleeing war in another country and donate to causes that support them.

«The point I was trying to make about the way in which we will support refugees who come to us who are children is that there is a clear legal framework that applies when people arrive here as refugees, which includes, after so many years, people being entitled to residency in the United Kingdom.

An NYU - Bahcesehir research team was the first to document the educational and mental health needs of Syrian refugee children, finding that an overwhelming majority are not enrolled in school in Turkey, partly as a result of language barriers, and about half suffer from PTSD and / or depression.

Operating primarily in Beirut and districts in Mount Lebanon, The Makhzoumi Foundation provides support to about 60,000 refugees each month — 25 % of them young children.

The child of Vietnamese refugees, she's spoken many times about how she wanted to live the life her parents didn't get to.

This book was an education for me — about refugees and what children go through in a war.

Bold films about a missing child and a levitating refugee set the mood — once you'd got through security.

This link becomes obvious e.g. when the students learn about the life of children in a refugee camp in Malawi or when they make friends with students in Afghanistan who are both directly suffering from the violence surrounding them.

The Run for your life classroom activities introduce pupils to the challenges and difficulties facing refugees about children from around the world who were forced to leave their homes.

Finally, children look at statistics about refugees and have an additional session on how to use the eight point of a compass.

Come fall, those officials — two of whom are Hmong and were refugees themselves in the 1970s — expect that their school system may enroll about 1,000 children from the Thai camp.

Narratives about the education of refugee children are typically bleak.

However, what about the education of children in conflict zones or refugee camps?

About Big Heart: Launched by Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah — UAE and UNHCR Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children in June 2013, the Big Heart for Syrian Refugee Children campaign works to relieve the plight of Syrian refugees with specific focus on the needs of cChildren in June 2013, the Big Heart for Syrian Refugee Children campaign works to relieve the plight of Syrian refugees with specific focus on the needs of cChildren campaign works to relieve the plight of Syrian refugees with specific focus on the needs of childrenchildren.

To date, about 245 000 Rwandan refugee, including women, children, elderly and the infirm, remain in the forest of DRC without any humanitarian assistance.30 Some who escaped the horrendous campaign sought refuge in Africa, South Africa included, and elsewhere, including Europe and the United States (US).

Living in Kampala and in two refugee camps, I learned how communities come together to create what they care most about: education for their children.

Drawing on his own experience as a child refugee from Cuba, Flores - Galbis offers a gripping historical novel about children who were evacuated from Cuba to the U.S. during Operation Pedro Pan in 1961.

Storyteller and human rights advocate Clemantine Wamariya talks about her life as a child refugee, and her biography The Girl Who Smiled Beads.

Hà's story touches upon many themes that I like to keep an open dialogue about with my children, among them: the often heartbreaking and perilous lives and background stories of immigrants and refugees, and the effects of bullying.

I had been working for some months in Dharamsala, then an overcrowded and under - funded refugee camp for Tibetan children, and that moving encounter with the Tibetan way of being made me feel slightly apprehensive about Lobsang.

In one film, the filmmaker interviews a Nigerian refugee seeking asylum in London about his experiences as a child soldier.

Was here on local TV; an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, complaining to the reporters that:» he doesn't have enough food for his 3 wifes and 14 children»... You go and tell those ladies, to have a say about the number of children.

I just saw a fascinating tweet about a connection between Steve Jobs of Apple and the drowned Syrian refugee child.

But the UN estimates that about 10 % of refugees in the region, approximately 380,000 women, men and children, do need to be resettled to other countries because they are at still risk or have particular vulnerabilities that can not be adequately addressed in cramped refugee camps.

And thinking about these actions with Public Service Loan Forgiveness by the Department of Education, it's definitely going to make it more difficult for the ABA to provide the public interest law services that we do, that veterans, domestic violence victims, refugees, homeless, elderly, disabled, children, it goes on and on and that's why the ABA is so dedicated to these issues.

She regularly speaks about migration, refugees and immigrant children and has written op - eds for the Boston Globe and appeared on NBC News online.

Each residence has 24 - hour help for families if they need it and residence workers try to help them to get into counselling, children's programs, family programs for refugees, housing and help after they move in, workshops about parenting, life skills and getting a job.

And this isn't just the ABA, so when you think about helping veterans, domestic violence victims, refugees, homeless, elderly, mentally challenged, children, so many others and you can see in the lawsuit the people who are the named plaintiffs.

Some goals of this program that we know are the reduction of the about 30 % of budgets lost due to corruption, creation of network based portfolios for the refugee children, and the merging of all records from health all the way to education and entitlements.

About Blog We work to fill the critical and unmet needs of people affected by war and conflict who have fallen through the net of humanitarian assistance, in particular women, children and urban refugees.

This paper outlines major international research findings of the past ten years reflecting knowledge gathered about the psychological health of child and adolescent refugee / asylum seekers.

This summary outlines major international research findings of the past ten years reflecting knowledge gathered about the psychological health and well - being of child and adolescent refugee / asylum seekers.

STARTTS, The NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors STARTTS, The NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors, has developed the following resources for those involved in counselling children and families from refugee backgrounds: Settling In, a group program for newly arrived refugee and migrant students which aims to help students adjust to life in Australia, and Families in Cultural Transition (FICT), a ten week series of workshops designed to help newly arrived refugees learn about Australia and settle successfully in their new country.

The opportunity for parents to share their concerns about their child's resettlement and to support parents in understanding the impact of refugee and resettlement experiences on their children

STARTTS, The NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors has developed the following resources for those involved in counselling children and families from refugee backgrounds: Settling In, a group program for newly arrived refugee and migrant students which aims to help students adjust to life in Australia, and Families in Cultural Transition (FICT), a ten week series of workshops designed to help newly arrived refugees learn about Australia and settle successfully in their new country.