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“What are you actually doing these days?” It’s a question we hear more often lately, and it’s a fair one. Much of our current work happens quietly, out of the public eye, because the people we work with depend on discretion for their safety. So here, we’d like to tell you a bit more.
In recent weeks, we have been active in four very different places:
Lebanon and Jordan, where we delivered a Training of Trainers with a group ready to make a difference themselves. In Gaza, where we continued to support aid workers online under the most challenging of circumstances. In the Netherlands, where we brought the power of music to hundreds people working for the Central Agency for Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA).
We delivered a five-day Training of Trainers in Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine, with 12 professionals working under increasingly difficult and threatening circumstances.
December took us to two places profoundly shaped by war and uncertainty,
in Lebanon and Ukraine, we were privileged to facilitate two very different, yet closely connected training courses for local professionals who continue to create spaces for care, connection and support under extremely challenging circumstances
We had the privilege of facilitating two inspiring training weeks. One online with people in Northeast Syria and one in-person in Jordan, but both were filled with inspiration, courage, and creativity.
In June, Sounds of Change trainers Lucas Dols and Sander van Goor returned to Ukraine to lead a week of training for teachers. Together with local trainer, musician and Sounds of Change Academy alumna Kateryna Kudasheva, they led two intensive three-day training programs in Uzhgorod.
We have had the privilege of working with aid workers operating in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon. In this newsletter, we would like to share more about the hybrid training we recently conducted in the West Bank and the support group we started for aid workers in Gaza.
As part of a two-year project we started earlier this year with the DROSOS FOUNDATION, we’ve been providing online training for professional caregivers who are currently active in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan.
Last week, more than 90 people attended our training.
We started the new year full of hope, energy and exciting plans for the future.
Here we would like to give you a small insight.
At the invitation of our Sounds of Change Academy alumni Kateryna Kudasheva and her local organisation Sol Diez, we traveled with Trauma International trainers Saskia Bok and Maartje Schel. Having arrived in the city of Uzhgorod in the Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia we trained 32 caregivers, teachers and therapists.