“Animate-it” Workshop - 6-10 July 2014

Monday 21 July 2014

“Animate-It” is an initiative which encourages child participation, and is used by Save the Children as an activity through which children are given the ability to express their views, tell their stories, and gain a sense of empowerment. Save the Children’s Child Friendly Spaces create the opportunity for children to feel a sense of normalcy despite their difficult circumstances.“Animate-It” is an initiative which encourages child participation, and is used by Save the Children as an activity through which children are given the ability to express their views, tell their stories, and gain a sense of empowerment. The process involved teamwork and collaboration, which brings children together and creates strong bonds of friendship between them.

 

 

 

 

‘Animate-It’ is an initiative which is used by Save the Children to enable children to tell their own stories in their own way and to get their advocacy messages out to the world. The process fosters self-confidence, it helps children work through their experiences, and the product helps people outside of the affected population understand what the children have gone through and what they are going through now. The process is child-led and gives children the ability to express their views and emphasise the violations they experience and, as rights holders, take action to prevent and address exploitation in their communities.

 

Over five days we ran an Animate-It workshop in one of the five Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) Save the Children is running as part of our emergency response to the refugee crisis in Egypt. The workshop was dual-purpose: we trained CFS facilitators on how to run Animate-It workshops, while also running an actual Animate-It workshop. There were 11 Syrian children and four Egyptian and Syrian facilitators, and the workshop was run by our Regional Information and Communications Manager Simine Alam.