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Interview with Palmyra Relief Founder Mohammed Antabli on AlAanFM Listen to this interview with Mohammed Antabli, founder of Palmyra Relief, on AlAanFM radio. (Arabic). Click to listen.

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It Takes a Village

It Takes a Village

It Takes a Village

May 21, 2015

Dear Reader-

When Hillary Clinton published her book It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,my classroom and the walls of the school were adorned with this African proverb. It helped to cement the idea that teachers, counselors, social workers, et al, were important in the lives of the children we encountered. Children are the world’s greatest asset. They are the…

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Children grapple with Ferguson shooting

FERGUSON, Aug 24, 2014:

Six-year-old Elijah grabs hold of a reporter’s microphone, faces the video camera, and sums up the news that has deeply shaken his neighborhood.

“It was a very bad day over there,” he said, looking over to the spot where unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot six times by a white police officer.

“I did not like it, and it was very very bad. I had to stay home from school and today they blocked the street. They killed a young boy. Right there. On the street.”

It’s tough enough for adults to come to grips with a police shooting that has suddenly turned this St Louis suburb into a focal point for a fresh debate on race and law enforcement in 21st century America.

But it’s no less perplexing for children whose first two weeks of school have been cancelled amid ongoing street protests that have frequently turned violent.

Many youngsters will remember these hot, humid late summer days as the first time they heard tear gas and rubber bullets used to disperse crowds, or the first time they followed their parents to a protest march.

 Teachers huddle

This past week, teachers, counsellors and school personnel in the St Louis area have discussed how best to respond to their students’ trauma, once classes resume.

In the Riverview Garden school district that includes the residential neighborhood where Brown was shot, teachers have been instructed not to let the incident become a subject of classroom discussion.

Students wanting to talk are to be steered instead towards social workers and counsellors, the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper reported.

On a lush green lawn along Canfield Drive, where a makeshift memorial marks the spot where Brown fell, children found another way Friday to express themselves.

There they found crayons, colouring pens, sheets of paper and some blank white face masks, plus the encouragement of adult volunteers, to create whatever they wished for a collective artistic narrative.

The resulting 2.5m “story wall” ran the gamut, from incongruous cutouts of basketball stars and sports cars to the words “I believe that we will win” scrawled in crayon beneath a orange and purple heart.

 Aware of parents’ fear

“Oftentimes, with kids, I’ve found that they sort of have a comprehension of what’s going on, and they know that adults are afraid,” said Elizabeth Vega, a St Louis artist who often works in schools and detention centres.

“But they process grief through playing and short verse. This is to allow them to express (what they feel) in a way that is safe and transcends language,” she told AFP.

“You can see it come out in the masks,” Vega added, gesturing towards one example that a young girl had decorated with red glitter.

“You know, to me, that’s like blood,” Vega remembered the child as saying.

Nearby, June Glover, associate minister at the Liberation Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in St Louis, took her turn manning an all-day walk-in counseling centre.

She said it’s critical to allow kids a safe space in which to vent their feelings.

“Just really talking, and allowing them the space to talk and to vent — and being OK with it,” she told AFP by way of prescription.

Glover also recommended getting a punching bag, which could prove beneficial to adults as well: “Hopefully, when they see their kids angry, they’ll check themselves.”

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7 Things To Consider Before A Divorce

The ‘happily ever after’ story of marriage is truly a myth. The realities of life are such, that life after marriage may start off well but may end up in … Read more about : 7 Things To Consider Before A Divorce

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"Daddy, Pick Me Up!" Child Loses Legs in Barrel Bomb Attack,

“Daddy, Pick Me Up!” Child Loses Legs in Barrel Bomb Attack,

A recent barrel bombing on Idlib made yet another young Syrian child into a victim. This time, young as Abdulbasit Taan Al-Satouf lost both of his legs.

His plight has gotten worldwide attention, as video footage captured the aftermath of the bombing, as the child cries out for his father, “Daddy, pick me up!”

Tens of thousands of children just like Abdulbasit have lost arms, legs, or both as a…

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Meet Abdul Karim Sayyd

Meet Abdul Karim Sayyd

Abdul Karim is 10 years old

Meet Abdul Karim Sayyd. Abdul is 10 years old, and he comes from Aleppo, Syria. Abdul is a refugee from the Syrian conflict, and he lives with his parents and three siblings in Istanbul, Turkey.

Palmyra Relief met Abdul Karim through our supporter, Shady Eed, who was reaching out to the Syrian refugee community to help identify children we can help who have lost limbs…

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Syrian Children Who Need Limbs, Love, and Help

Syrian Children Who Need Limbs, Love, and Help

Palmyra Relief’s founder and trustee, Mohammed Antabli is currently traveling in Turkey with his wife and fellow trustee, Franca Fiabane, meeting Syrian refugee families whose children have lost limbs as a result of the war in Syria.  Here are just a few of the many children they have met in the last few days, children we hope we can soon help through Palmyra Relief’s support.

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Capping the Well -- Colleen - 4/24/2015

Capping the Well — Colleen – 4/24/2015

Capping the Well

24 April 2015

Anger may bring some kind of energy for a short period, but that energy is actually blind energy. And anger can really destroy the part of your brain which can judge right or wrong. —The Dalai Lama

Il Mio Tesorocaught me crying my guts out the other night. I had just parted ways with her after a lecture about some minor infraction. I said goodnight and came…

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Somali Refugee Children Send Letters of Hope to Syrian Refugee Children Young Somali Children living in a Refugee camp in Kenya write letters of hope to refugee children in Syria.

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Syrian Refugee Children Tell it How it Is Syrian children living in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan give their perspective on the things that have happened and difficulties they've faced.

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Thousands of Syrian Children Alone in Italy So far in 2014, more than 9,000 child refugees have arrived in Italy from Syria, by themselves.

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The Faces of the Smallest Survivors, Syrian Children

Around 3 million Syrian children have been displaced by war. They’ve had to suffer through their houses being bombed, not being able to attend school because of war, being separated from or losing family members, and having to leave Syria. Children as young as 2 and up to 14 share their aspirations, desires, hopes, and stories about what they’ve experienced.

 See the photos and article from NBC…

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A Must-Watch Series of Reports from NBC on the Plight of Syrian Children

“They’ve seen terrible things: bombings, shooting, people screaming…Their lives were turned upside down.”

Excellent reporting on the tragic situation facing Syria’s children, from NBC.

See the story, and videos, now.

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ThThe Wounded Generation in Syriae Wounded Generation in Syria An excellent video, from the New York Times website, titled "Syria’s Wounded Generation," shows a medical after-care center near Turkey’s border with Syria, where civilians and combatants recover from life-altering injuries.

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New Report Exposes the Devastating Health Impact of the Syrian War on Children

New report exposes devastating toll of war on health of #Syria's children

Save the Children has issued a report on the status of health care in Syria, titled “A devastating toll: the impact of three years of war on the health of Syria’s children.” The report exposes a broken health system and its consequences: children not just dying from violent means but from diseases that would previously either have been treatable or prevented.

Read more about the report.

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Syrian War is Leaving Children Struggling to Survive

Imagine you have a young child whose legs must be amputated because hospitals don’t have the proper equipment to treat them, or a world in which a patient opts to be knocked unconscious with a metal bar because there are no anaesthetics. Imagine a life where newborn babies die in their incubators because of power cuts.

Horrific, isn’t it? Yet this is reality for people inside Syria who have…