Sketching out trauma | Borneo Bulletin Online
Susan Njanji METUGE, MOZAMBIQUE (AFP) – Twice a week, dozens of Mozambican children gather under the shade of a big mango tree for what looks at first glance like a community play date. But they are not there for fun, rather for solace and healing after witnessing shocking atrocities committed by extremists in the north of the country over the past three years. Mental health workers ask the children – some of them chubby toddlers who look outwardly happy – to draw anything that comes to mind. Seventeen-year-old Alberto Almeida sits behind the smaller children, holding his paper on his r...
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