By Kh. Shams -AL- Muzaddid Tanvir | Asst. Manager
Bringing Smiles on The Faces of Innocence
In the beginning of 2018, JAAGO established the Safe Haven Project (SHP) for the Rohingya Refugees children. Here, 500 of the total displaced of children is being catered in Safe Haven to get some reliefs from their traumas. To resolve the Rohingya Crisis situation, The Safe Haven project aims to provide children a chance to develop their motor and analytical skills, as well as the space of expressing their feelings and experiences. It helps to develop the basic life-skills of 500 traumatized children through socio-emotional learning intervention strategy. The activities aid to strengthen the brain building and emotion regulation skills along with some positive social and conflict resolution skills. To achieve this, different activities related to logical skills development and gross motor skills development such as physical activity, in door games, art and craft works, singing, dancing and story-telling and various informative and recreational videos for positive social skills development are incorporated.
Safe Haven’s goal is to set up child-friendly spaces in the camps with child protection officers and care givers. This will help the children to recover their bad experiences easily and come back to their normal life.
Sharing Happy Meal Boxes
As these children went through the traumatized situation for the ethnic cleansing period, they did not have the chance to have good food and proper nutrition. Safe Haven took the initiative to provide them food so that these children can enjoy at least one meal a day. Therefore, at our Safe Haven we provide healthy lunch meal to 500 children each day. Every child got their own lunch box. They bring the empty lunch box with them while entering the Safe Haven they put their lunch box in a fixed place. After completing the activities at the Safe Haven they take their lunch box filled with different items of food to their home so that they can share their meal with their families and at the end of the day we can see the smile and happiness on these children and their families’ face.
Learning Literacy & Numeracy for Life
Education is the key rights of every human’s life. As in Bangladesh there is no permission to give formal education to these refugee children, Safe Haven have been trying to give basic knowledge to these Refugee children. Through this learning session, now they can identify letters & sight words, numbers and also these children can dream big and they can achieve what they dream of.
Orchestrating Dreams on The Papers
To draw their aim and dream, we provide notebooks. These children are eager to learn about the world and day to day basis they dream big. Therefore, Safe Haven tries to keep their dream alive, we provide them notebooks so that they can jot down their imagination world and draw what they feel like and this make them smile.
Bringing Back The Childhood Joys with Toys
During the ethnic cleansing,these Refugee young children missed out their childhood days, their childhood ground, homes and favorite toys behind and now they are foreign to new country. Thinking about what they have missed, Safe Haven tries to make them smile and give their childhood days back by providing their favorite kinds of toys.
Thank You Note
We are grateful to our NGO partners, corporates, donors and supporters for their generous support of Safe Haven relief efforts on behalf of the millions of children and families struggling to survive in the aftermath of the Humanitarian crisis. Without their contribution and support, Safe Haven journey would not have progressed and prospered in changing lives of these unfortunate children. We requests them to continue their love and support by providing their irreplaceable support to this humanitarian cause, by this unconditional support, we can ensure each child can overcome this trauma with the help of JAAGO’s Safe Haven for Rohingya Refugee Children.
By Kh. Shams -AL- Muzaddid Tanvir | Assistant Manager | JAAGO Foundation
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