Improving the quality of psychosocial support for children and adolescents in the Darfur refugee camps

Micha de Winter
Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and consultant to UNICEF Sudan

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In order to offer psychosocial support for children and adolescents in the Darfur refugee camps, UNICEF established a large number of so-called Child Friendly Spaces. This article describes a training for model animators, who later gave an on-the-job training to the animators in the facilities. This had a substantial effect on the quality of the support the animators offered to the children.