Almost 20,000 Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees live in Tsore Camp in Ethiopia. Nearly half of them are children who fled their home country in search of a better life.
Now, the JOFA project is teaming up with these children to help them recover from traumatic experiences.
Sileshi Zenebe, JOFA Consortium Manager Ethiopia explains how Team Up approach is helping children to overcoming their difficult situation.
What is JOFA? 01:05.
What is Team Up? 01:27.
Experience in Tsore Camp. 01:04.
Benefits for children. 01:35.
Impact and outcomes. 01:10.
TeamUp is based in psychosocial group interventions to encourage learning through doing, playing, and moving together. It has a huge impact on unaccompanied, separated, and other vulnerable refugee children to relieve them from stress and enhance their resilience by enhancing social interaction with the community. When children participate in TeamUp sessions, they feel safe, protected, and supported.
Thanks to these positive outcomes, children are active in school and attend classes regularly. TeamUp has a direct effect on reducing child protection risks such as child labor, physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, aggravated when children stay around home.
If you want to know more about how Team Up works in Tsore Camp,Ethiopia, don’t miss our featured story: Teaming up with children in Ethiopia
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