World Refugee Day
Children from neighbourhoods on the southern edge of Bogota have expressed their experiences in drawings and stories that were compiled into a booklet that was published by ACT members.
ACT International
Helping Children Live with Trauma of Displacement
Forty years of conflict and a recent economic downturn have led to the deterioration in basic living conditions for many Colombians. A World Food Program study conducted between December 2002 and April 2003 concluded that 80 percent of Colombians displaced by violence live in extreme poverty and lack access to sufficient food.
Among its various ways of responding to this ongoing crisis, ACT members in Colombia have provided children with psychosocial services. Children have not only had to deal with the impact of being forcibly displaced, but also the many consequences of displacement, which affected their social and psychological development, given the levels of violence often starting at home, but also endemic in the broader communities.
