By Constance Ndeleko As the adage goes, “Change is inevitable.” Children go through different phases in life whereby they need adults to stand firm with them through different transitions. Sometimes change could be easy and smooth but at times it could be difficult and painful especially when children are feeling stuck. As witnessed during the […]
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Children’s Mental Health during the Pandemic-India By Geetika Gautam In these challenging times, the pandemic has shaken and disturbed lives across the globe, being extremely destructive with more than 34.7L deaths worldwide and India accounting for more than 3.0L deaths. The real number is widely believed to be far higher with many people dying outside
By Constance Ndeleko The impact of the pandemic couldn’t be felt harder and harsher than by those coming from humanitarian settings. It has been tough and challenging to survive this phase for children on the move and refugee especially with Covid-19 restrictions in place to help combat the virus. Girls and young women have stomached
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By Constance Ndeleko The uncertainty of when and how schools will re-open is still a baffle to many of us. Governments are working hard enough to ensure that they priorities the well-being of children. As the pandemic poses a grave threat to the world’s children; mortality rate for healthy children infected by the virus has
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By Constance Ndeleko Around the world, too many children still start life at a disadvantage simply because of who they are and where they are from. (Save the Children) Prior to the pandemic there have been reported cases of violence against children globally with at least 2-17 years old experiencing physical, sexual or emotional violence or
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By Constance Ndeleko Times have been hard with the wide spread of the pandemic across continents with its advent bringing interferences to our normalcy, forcing us to adapt to a new normal and its impact hitting hard especially to those in abject poverty, those in conflict zones, refugees and IDPs, those in detention/juvenile and in
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