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Update from Antakya August 2020 Maria Chambers, project coordinator. Online learning continues in Turkey and Syria. This week we celebrated with end of course parties – small groups of socially distanced children came into the centre seeing each other for the first time since March. There was a great atmosphere...

  Come and join us on the 11th of August at 7.30pm UK time when comedian, Mark Thomas, is live streaming his world famous show, Walking the Wall, and donating a % of the proceeds to Firefly, IMET2000(who are organising) and ICAHD UK. We hope to have an audience from...

  We are hoping that we will be able to go ahead with our annual fundraiser in London this year on the 17th of November at a new venue in St George’s Church, Aubrey Walk, Notting Hill. The truth is we can’t be sure if it will go ahead, but...

  With the support of our partners Action for Child Trauma International/IMET2000/Firefly International, in July 2019 we launched a pilot service for children in Gaza suffering from severe symptoms of psychological trauma. So the clinic has now had its first birthday! With remote clinical supervision from Jordan by Dr Ghalia...

  “We must not let time pass in an empty way – lost time is never found again” These times have been particularly challenging for anyone under the age of twenty living in Turkey. Young people have been restricted to their homes for three solid months from March 15th to...

Many thanks to all those who helped us to win this £1000 award by nominating us. We won! It will go direct to our partners in Bosnia, Turkey and Syria working with communities already devastated by war and now coping with Covid19. If you could help a little more please...

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Online education is exceptionally exciting, enabling us to increase our reach as well as explore new ways of educating, accommodating different ages and educational needs in a rapidly evolving landscape of education.  Firefly for Syrians has managed quickly to mobilise our programme to ensure that we are still delivering the...

In the Syrian camps we have been running workshops about hygiene – the importance of hand washing and awareness of Coronavirus alongside our daily curriculum. Syrian children have endured so much in their lives and are increasingly vulnerable in these unprecedented times. Our work is crucial supporting these communities through...

Our Staff in Antakya are rolling out teacher training and mentoring for our teachers inside Syria. For the last eight and a half years there have been very few further professional development opportunities for teachers inside Syria. 70% of qualified teachers have fled the country. The team in Antakya has...

This Video features “Ali “who has spent many winters in basic tented accommodation since fleeing his home in 2016. It shows how he is benefitting from our applied science programme. He has a space to learn and develop his creativity. The situation in the camps in Northern Idlib is increasingly...

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A huge thank you to Rufus for choosing firefly for his birthday fundraiser and for the donation he made to our partner projects in Bosnia, Syria, Turkey and Gaza.  

We are two months into the CATT (children’s accelerated trauma treatment) Gaza Pilot project and the mid-term report is complete and full of the successes already achieved:  20 children referred and assessed 10 children who have completed CATT treatment 30 care-givers reached through awareness sessions  Challenging PTSD symptoms have been reduced and recovery...