By Laila Risgallah PhD | Project Leader
These were the words of a 13 year old girl who came in for councelling. She has been abused, traumatized by fleeing her country, Syria, and to make matters even worse, as soon as she arrived to the country they fled to, her 50 year old father left them for a 22 year old girl leaving her and her Down syndrome sister without a caregiver.
Wafa is a beautiful teen ager with big black eyes, long dark hair reaching down to her waist. She tried to commit suicide twice beacswue of all that has happened to her. When i asked her to draw herself, she drew a warewolf. "Why a warewolf"? I asked. "Becasue it has a smile on its face but it is ready to kill". So much anger, so much bitterness.
This is why I studied an extra course int he last three months to equip myself on trauma therapy for war kids, which I assume we'll be seeing a lot of in the next few years.
But we cannot do it alone.
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Dr. Laila Risgallah PhD
Founder and President
Not Guilty Inc.
To abolish sexual abuse, trauma and bullying in children.
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