Syrian and Palestinian refugee children living in Lebanon have new backpacks and school supplies from a collaboration between Latter-day Saint Charities and the Union of Relief and Development Associations.
Empowered Aid: New Toolkit Helps Detect and Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Assistance
Seventy-three percent of women and girls receiving aid at one food program in Uganda reported being afraid during at least one point in the distribution process, said Hope Harriet, Empowered Aid Research Manager. Harriet spoke at the launch event for Empowered Aid’s Toolkit for Planning and Monitoring Safer Aid Distributions. Empowered Aid is a participatory action research project focused on addressing sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in humanitarian settings and aid distribution. The project is led by the Global Women’s Institute (GWI) in partnership with CARE, the Union of Relief and Development Associations, the International Rescue Committee, and World Vision.
Illustration by Tawfiq Dawi
BEIRUT M. had not slept for two months when she reached out to Jouhaina Mouslem asking for psychological help. “This woman was devastated, collapsed,” recalled Mouslem, a psychologist originally from Aleppo and currently active in the mental health programs of the ‘Women Now’ NGO in Lebanon.
M. had been detained in a Syrian regime prison. After being released, her husband left her, so she fled to Lebanon, leaving her two children in Syria. M. remarried and had a son, but her second husband also left her. She was in a critical economic situation. “She had depression, acute anxiety; she went through all her Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms living alone,” Mouslem explained.
The Destruction You Can t See: A report into the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms amongst IDPs and refugees from the Syrian conflict
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99% of Syrian IDPs and 73% of Syrian refugees have PTSD symptoms
Syria Relief, one of the world s leading Syria-focused NGOs, can reveal today (Monday, March 1st 2021) research which shows 99% of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in wartorn Idlib, Northwest Syria have symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The research also shows74% of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and 76% of Syrian refugees in Turkey also have PTSD symptoms. Syria Relief are labelling this the Syrian PTSD crisis.
The report, The Destruction You Can t See: A report into the prevalence of PTSD symptoms amongst IDPs and refugees from the Syrian conflict, finds: