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Gaza: the cycle of violence against innocent people needs to stop. NOW!
One month has already passed since Hamas terrorist attacks that killed at least 1300 Israelis and the beginning of the latest conflict between Israel and Gaza. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad still hold more than 242 soldiers and civilians hostage. The Israeli military response to the attack has been unprecedented, targeting the civilian population in Gaza…
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‘Play and Children: Everybody’s Joy and Interest’
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Navigating Childish Times: what roles for children and young people in a fragmented and polarized world?
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Visit from Albanian children protection professionals
Last week at ICDI we had the pleasure of receiving a delegation made of professionals from Albania (law professors, social workers, and representatives from national and local authorities) who are involved in the child protection system in their country. They came on a working visit organized by Save the Children Albania and Dutch alternative care expert Bep van…
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Impact of the New Home project – Ukraine
It is always interesting and exciting to find out about the impact of a project you have worked on with passion for some time. Recently we received the impact report of the project “A New Home: integration and psychosocial support of internally displaced children in Ukraine”, which we designed and implemented from 2016 to 2018 together…
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Adolescents research about relationships among their peers
Research about children and young people is more likely conducted on them rather than by them. We wondered: what might happen to our perceptions of children and young people if they were given the tools to be able to conduct meaningful research by themselves? Will they have different kinds of questions, needs and priorities ultimately leading…
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Workshop on child care, family reintegreation and foster care in Guatemala
Thousands of children in need of care and protection or in conflict with law live in institutions. This has proven to be detrimental for their development and well-being, so there is nowadays a worldwide general trend of deinstitutionalization of children care, and one of the best ways to go seems to be foster care. Foster…
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ICDI supports child protection in Albania
ICDI has been involved in a consultancy for Save the Children Albania for the past six months. The focus has been on developing a Best Interest of the Child (BIC) checklist, to support Albanian child protection workers with their assessments for children who are at risk of being placed outside their biological families, or for children who are in institutions but for…
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Opening NEST after school programme refugee centre Drachten
Last Friday, the new NEST in the refugee centre in Drachten was officially opened. NEST is an after-school programme for 6-12 year-old children living in refugee centres. The main goal of NEST is to offer children a safe, warm place, in which they can build a trusting relationship with staff and volunteers and do all kinds of activities, to strengthen…
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‘Veerkracht haalt de oorlog uit een kind’ – lezing over vluchtelingkinderen voor professionals
Gisteren hield Mathijs Euwema, directeur van International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI) en kinderpsycholoog, een lezing voor professionals die zich bezighouden met vluchtelingengezinnen. Aanwezig waren medewerkers van de GGD, VluchtelingenWerk, Centra voor Jeugd en Gezin en Welzijnswerk. Het thema van zijn lezing was de veerkracht van kinderen. Hoewel Mathijs Euwema veel kennis heeft over de specifieke problemen die kinderen in oorlogsgebieden…
