The Healing Classrooms programme trains teachers in special techniques that help them engage traumatised kids and create a secure and nurturing learning environment. Thanks to Healing Classrooms, girls surrounded by violence can feel secure going to school, and children living with disabilities can easily participate in class.

Juliet is one of more than 2,000 girls between the ages of 16 and 19 from some of Kenya’s poorest communities who are benefiting from the IRC project Girls Empowered by Microfranchise (GEM).

Sixteen-year-old Wala’a is haunted by a terrifying memory—being assaulted by a soldier as she fled the war in Syria. One of more than 700,000 refugees now living in Jordan, she struggles to come to terms with the losses and hardships the conflict has inflicted on her and her family. But Wala’a has found a way to tell her story.

Ruth used to wake up every morning wondering what she would learn at school. But when Boko Haram came in with guns, her place of learning became a place of danger.