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  • Snapshots from a visit to Little Star in November 2010

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    In November, PBUK trustee Lucy Hannah visited our projects in Chechnya.  Here are some highlights from her visit. “When there’s no LS seminar I feel sad. This is the place where we play, paint, put pictures on the wall and laugh,” Markha, 10, from the school in the Michurina region. Magomed, 12, has been going…

  • Little Star in Turkey

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    Little Star in Turkey The Little Star team of psychologists and support staff gathered in the Turkish Mediterranean town of Kiris, near Antalya from 14th to 22nd October together with Louis Greig (Honorary President) and Chris Hunter (Programmes Coordinator) from Peacebuilding UK, Janet Riley from Friends’ International Library, and interpreters Ismayil Khayredinov and John Coutts.…

  • Little Star Psychologists to Visit the UK in 2009

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    Most of the twelve Little Star psychologists will visit the UK in 2009. Working every day with traumatized people causes a strain for those conducting this work, and Peacebuilding UK therefore arranges a break or retreat for the team of psychologists and counsellors each year for rest and recuperation. Previous retreats have been conducted in the…

  • Supporting Psychosocial work in Gaza

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    Peacebuilding UK has been invited by an NGO in Gaza to support their work through staff training in the fields of child psychological trauma counselling and rehabilitation. This co-operation will focus on psychosocial counselling of children in the field and the training of new staff/ mental health professionals in Gaza. An initial one-week seminar is…