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A Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) is a secure, caring and predictable place where children and adolescents living in conflict and crisis settings can learn, develop and be protected. The SHLS Toolkit provides child protection and education practitioners with all of the content needed to initiate an SHLS program.
The International Rescue Committee’s Safe Healing and Learning Spaces are secure, caring and stable environments for children who are living in conflict or crisis.
Children like 11-year-old Farah who have lived under ISIS rule have often seen things that no child should have to see. The IRC provides safe spaces where they can play, learn and recover from emotional trauma.
Through counseling and creative activities, thirteen-year-old Nada regained a sense of hope, security and confidence.
The Bezos Family Foundation along with the IRC and Global Nomads Group launched the Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms Challenge which will help Syrian refugee children in Lebanon and Iraq recover from crisis.
Learning Hubs have provided a supportive environment for refugee students with beginners English to find one-on-one time with educators and continue to maintain progress academically during the school year.
IRC education expert Jamie Weiss-Yagoda shares tips she's using to help her two young children keep learning while schools are closed due to the coronavirus.
Life drastically changed for Dalal and the other young women after fleeing the conflict in Syria. They are among the 13.5 million people displaced by this devastating war, now in its eighth year.
