Bangladesh: Myanmar children need psychological support

Written by David Fletcher 13 Oct 2017
Bangladesh: Myanmar children need psychological support

‘Children are visibly traumatised and distressed, and many have stopped speaking,’ said a Save the Children team member in Bangladesh. Displaced children arriving there are exhibiting signs of trauma such as nightmares and loss of speech after witnessing horrific violence, and are in urgent need of psychological and emotional support. As well as providing food, water and shelter to more than half a million, charities have identified psychological and emotional support services as a critical need. Most of those arriving from Myanmar are women and girls: some have been raped and sexually abused. Hundreds of children are separated from their families, and report having witnessed violence first hand. Their enormous psychosocial needs are obvious to anyone walking through the camps and makeshift settlements.

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  • Pray: for more counsellors, therapists and child psychotherapists to volunteer to give the urgently needed emotional and psychological support to those who have experienced horrors. (Proverbs 20:27)