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"Doctor, What About My Brother?"

Dr. Raghu Venugopal | Posted 04.12.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Medicins Sans Frontieres, Doctors Without Borders, Global Health, Trauma, Humanitarian, World, Msf, Health, Emergency, Canada, Chad, Raghu Venugopal, Antimam, Canada Impact News
Dr. Raghu Venugopal

The desperate man asked me in French, "Doctor, what about my brother?" Somewhere, in one of the rooms full of bloodied bodies lying on the ground, was this man's brother. A mass casualty incident had hit Am Timan hospital in chad. This man was looking for his brother amongst the 50 or so victims.

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Talking to Your Kids About a Tragedy

Alyson Schafer | Posted 02.17.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Newtown, Parenting, Trauma, Newtown School Shooting, Newtown Elementary School Shooting, Canada Living News
Alyson Schafer

Parents need to decide how much their children should know about this event. But what are parents to tell them? That is the questions on everyone's mind. Parents know best what their own child can handle. There is a range of sensitivities in children and only a parent knows their child well enough to know what they can handle. The rules you need to apply are as follows...

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Talking to Kids About Trauma

Alyson Schafer | Posted 08.06.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Anxiety, Parenting, Trauma, Childhood, Luka Rocco Magnotta, Eaton Centre Shooting, Kid Psychology, Talking to Kids, Traumatic Events, Canada Living News
Alyson Schafer

This weekend's shooting in the food court of the Toronto Eaton Centre has many children frightened for their safety. It also has parents wondering what best to do to ease their child's fears. Here are my five points for building your approach...

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Feed the Body and the Soul in Dadaab

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 11.08.2011 | Canada
Read More: Free the Children, Dadaab, Refugee Camps, War Trauma, Drought, Trauma, East Africa Drought, Famine, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Torture Trauma, Kenya, East Africa Famine, Somalia, Canada News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

Beyond the urgency of filling empty stomachs is the legacy of torture and trauma that so many of these refugees have endured. The soul can become just as empty.

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