Podcast – “What I’ve Learned”
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In this episode, I speak to Professor Mike Wessells, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, and a long-time champion of community- and people-led approaches for child protection and MHPSS. Mike and I discuss an example of deeply participatory work undertaken with war-affected young mothers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and northern Uganda.
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Juan José tells us about a War Child Holland programme which has been working with a displaced rural indigenous community now living in the town of Quibdó in Chocó. Through a community reflection on the risks to their children in this non-traditional, peri-urban environment, community members mobilised a traditional structure to help keep their children safe.
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Dr Glynis Clacherty talks us through an example of an intergenerational child-led programme in rural Nshamba, Tanzania. Over 20 years ago children affected by HIV worked together to help each other deal with the psychological and practical hardships they were experiencing.
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An episode from the What I’ve Learned podcast series. Hosted by War Child Holland and the Exchange, this episode features Ken Ondoro and Juan José Castellanos Piedrahita discussing what community-led child protection can look like and how they have approached it.