Less Fearful, More Active: What Have We Learned?
An outdoor drawing class at Nuri Bermek Primary School, Sakarya.
Photograph by Yakut Temiroğlu-Sundur © UNICEF Turkey 2000
MONE and UNICEF’s Psychosocial School Project is a collaboration between a number of institutions and many individuals who share the common aim of reaching out to the children of the Marmara region in order to support them in their distress and to alleviate the effects of their trauma. The goal is to restore their self confidence and to instill in them a renewed faith in the future. The project was developed by way of an immediate response to the catastrophes of August and November 1999 and has been subject to numerous refinements and improvements during the course of it’s implementation. Prior to 1999, a project of such scale and reach was unknown in Turkey and as such, it has proven to be an invaluable learning experience for the institutions and other interested parties involved, as it has been of benefit to the children and adults whose suffering it has sought to alleviate. Inter-provincial relationships between school authorities have been reinforced and broadened as the dialogue between schools, teachers, students and their families has grown. The success of the multi-institutional collaboration overseen by MONE will serve as a model for future co-operation in similar situations.
The fully illustrated text of Less Fearful, More Active is also available for download in print-ready pdf format. [PDF 1.25MB]
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