The plight of refugee children and their families goes far beyond a humanitarian catastrophe on which we must not turn a blind eye, their wounded hearts certainly yearn for hope, but their childish spirit and the psychological traumas they will face will leave deep traces that they will leave behind. will probably never recover.
It must be thought that in every child’s brain lies the almost instinctive idea that his parents are able to protect him from all evil, when this does not happen, when family members get lost and the world collapses in front of them in the shadow of atrocity. and dismay, something breaks in the child’s mind.
- Refugees.
- Forced to leave their home country.
- Their homes.
- Their roots?Adults who hold hands with these children who only yearn for a future.
- A breath of hope in those faces who have forgotten to smile and who do not remember what happiness.
- Is.
Psychological support should also be part of the essential humanitarian assistance needed by all refugee camps Do adults, but especially young children and adolescents, need mental support to restore wounds that are not visible to the skin but can remain forever in their minds?in their souls?
A minute’s television is not enough to understand the situation these children and their families live in, Syrian refugees, for example, have more weight on their backs than the few assets they have managed to conserve, theirs is a permanent drag of violence, bombs, snipers and entire neighborhoods turned into rubble.
Many of these children leave their parents with their families and go to the Mediterranean Sea, a crowded raft and a poor quality vest are the only way to find the best world their mothers, fathers or siblings talk about, but the sea is treacherous and sometimes they will have to add another trauma to their already fragmented childish mind , inhabited by countless dark basements.
Jan Kizilhan, a specialist in child psychology, told the German Society of Child and Youth Medicine that millions of refugee children suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and that most of them will suffer psychological consequences for the rest of their lives.
Entities such as the International Medical Corps have applied psychological evidence to some 8,000 Syrian refugees who have been on the border with Jordan in recent months. The results are:
As can be seen, the mental health of all these people, especially minors, goes beyond cold and hunger. Internal injuries that will persist into adulthood, which will be a personality based on despair; and there’s nothing darker than a child who doesn’t remember what a smile is and can’t see his future with hope.
All children have this quality called resilience, with which they can overcome this past of horror. Through proper psychotherapy, family care and a society capable of welcoming, involving and integrating, we could probably offer them a second chance, but it’s up to everyone.
I hope that current politics will take more appropriate courses, so that the management of our resources and the planet focuses on a global well-being, not that of each country, that of each house or that of each individual in a competitive way and Fierce Way, because horror does not know the homeland or flags, and the pain of all these families and their children is a call that we should not ignore.