Children In Desperate Need of Support

There are nearly 3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan, and field workers estimate that about 80 percent of them are children.

The children especially are very vulnerable and in urgent need of health care, nutritious food and psychosocial care.

Government officials have estimated up to 70 percent of them are traumatized.

Islamic Relief is setting up child-friendly Mercy Centers, where displaced children will receive medical care, food, schooling and psychosocial support from trained psychologists.

Mercy Centers are not only a place for the kids to have fun, but will also help separated children reunite with their families.

Aid workers have witnessed a rejuvenated sense of hope in the children the Mercy Centers are serving.

“At one of the centers, eight-year-old Tufail came running to me clutching one of the books,” Niyaz Muhamad, an Islamic Relief aid worker in Mardan, wrote in his diary.

“[Tufail] was very excited about the opportunity to read and learn again, and kept asking when the lessons would begin. It made me realize how important education is to children and how much it can help with resettling them after a traumatic experience,” he wrote.

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