“With Hedayah’s Activity Guide, we were able to reproduce activities with the children within the context of rehabilitation sessions and even with their families, because Hedayah believes in social learning and the importance of including a family. We used to do many activities with the children but now we have the right methodology to do them.”
Bassem Hadj Arbi, Senior Social Worker, Mahdia, Tunisia
“I very much like the Needs Assessment Manual and the Activity Guide Hedayah gave us. I summarized them and created an action plan on how to use them. I shared the materials with all my colleagues at the center. We are practicing the content, doing role plays between us before implementing them with the kids.”
Imen Houceni Psychologist, Bizerte, Tunisia
“We have been trained as Child Protection Delegates, but it was a very general training dedicated to children at risk, not specifically children exposed to violent extremism. Hedayah’s training was very beneficial, we now have more techniques, we know how to deal with recruits, and can therefore adapt our interactions.”
Kamel Abdellaoui, Child Protection Delegate Monastir, Tunisia
“Hedayah’s training, offered to us in coordination with state institutions, opened our eyes to new methodologies that changed our perception and way of doing things. Now we need to read more and reinforce our capacities. Even at home, when I watch a TV series I watch them with a critical eye, paying attention to the push and pull factors.”
Sahbi Boukriba, Child Protection Delegate Nabeul, Tunisia
“The activities [in Hedayah’s training] were interactive and made the training fun. I myself used the activity guide in a Youth Center in Mahdia. We used the Deserted Island and the Fishboat activities. In the end children were asking me to do them again, and asking me when would I come back to the Center”
Majdi Aroussi, Child Protection Delegate, Mahdia, Tunisia
“Hedayah provided us with solutions on how to deal with families that reject our services. By talking to family friends and neighbors, and showed us how to inform families that we are there to help them. Most of our work has been done for years, but Hedayah gave us orientation and guidance”
Leyla Amdouni, Social Worker, Bizerte, Tunisia
“The role plays and simulations conducted in Hedayah’s workshop helped us overcome the ‘building trust’ challenge. To avoid traditional ways that wanted to change the mindset from the first interview, and instead, focus on building trust, by imitating the language, clothing style and behaviour of the child, because when we're speaking in standard Arabic or wearing conventional clothes they will not trust us.”
Rabeb Ayari, Delegate at the General Office for the protection of Children. Tunis, Tunisia