CWR’s partner organizations, Twelve12: Hope, and the DR Congo nonprofit Beacon of Hope, collaborated on a Child Trauma Recovery Training Program. 75 children attended a 5 day camp with participants who were being trained in child trauma recovery. These participants were anyone from teachers to pastors to school administrators and supervisors who are interested in bringing this kind of recovery back to their communities. A model for child trauma recovery was presented and now other programs are being developed. This is the very essence of grass roots and community development. Partnerships are continuing to be development with the hope of encouraging long term sustainability for the children of the Ituri district of DR Congo. Twelve12: Hope writes,
In the DR Congo, a country that has been ravaged by civil war, there are many people who haven’t had the comfort of feeling safe, and many of them children. My home has always felt safe. I have never felt threatened in the places that I have lived, but that is not the case for many families in the DR Congo. But what happens when the fighting stops? What happens when there is a new found sense of peace?
CWR’s partner organizations, Twelve12: Hope, and the DR Congo nonprofit Beacon of Hope, collaborated on a Child Trauma Recovery Training Program. 75 children attended a 5 day camp with participants who were being trained in child trauma recovery. These participants were anyone from teachers to pastors to school administrators and supervisors who are interested in bringing this kind of recovery back to their communities. A model for child trauma recovery was presented and now other programs are being developed. This is the very essence of grass roots and community development. Partnerships are continuing to be development with the hope of encouraging long term sustainability for the children of the Ituri district of DR Congo. Twelve12: Hope writes, “Justice is served when the community knows there is hope for their children who live in a high risk environment. The goal of bringing justice helps children so that they no longer live with chronic terror.”
Psalm 10: 17-18 says, “You hear O Lord, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.” Join CWR in prayer for these partners and those being trained in child trauma recovery. Pray for the children and their families that they might know the love of Christ and the peace that surpasses understanding.
–Hannah Gaskins, intern with CWR
