This year, on the World Refugee Day (June 20th) we will be doing a sponsored activity for our Life in the Desert project. With the help from a child psychologist, we have created this 3D animation series to support traumatised children living in refugee camps and vulnerable communities across the Middle East and North Africa. The series is accompanied by a curriculum with guiding questions, exercises, and homework for the children. Part of this project is to support and train school teachers and NGO workers in this curriculum and in trauma relief. Many of these teachers and NGO workers have themselves experienced trauma which is why it is vital we equip them with the necessary support and tools to go on and support vulnerable children. In the last two years we have trained 227 teachers and NGO workers in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. They have since used our Life in the Desert programme to support 4,209 children which averages out as 18.5 children per teacher – an incredible achievement! Over the next 12 months we plan to train a further 113 teachers and NGO workers in Syria, Iraq, Sudan and hopefully Jordan. At the moment we do not have all needed finances to be able to achieve that. Which is why on June 20th, World Refugee Day, we are going to champion these 113 teachers and NGO workers by raising the necessary £35,000 through our sponsored activity.