August 2024 |
Kids Play Therapy For Maai Mahiu Flood Victims.
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It has been nearly three months since the events of the flash flood in Maai Mahiu, and the children who suffered loss still weigh heavily in our hearts. We know the experience that they went through was such a traumatic one. This is an experience that can define their entire childhood! We as Ubuntu Life Foundation made a commitment to ensure that this trauma will not shape the trajectory of their life.
So in response we organized a flood victim play therapy session, in which we hoped to bring the kids together through an experience of music, dance, and just fellowship with their fellow peers. We hoped by getting kids out of their daily environment and into a place where they’ll forget their experience of the floods would be very beneficial for them. They could take their minds off of the tragedy that had occurred and just be kids.
This exercise was also a way to give the kids a safe place where they could express how they feel about the tragedy. We had more than 200 kids who came to participate in our second kids play therapy and from the moment the kids arrived we realized how much they were suffering emotionally, and mentally. Most efforts to help the flood victims were centered around the adults as people felt as though they were the ones that suffered the real loss. We believe however that the children were right alongside suffering with the parents. They lost friends, siblings, and some even their family right in front of their eyes.
These memories are going to stick with them for a very long time. By allowing them to be children again we hoped to kickstart and continue the process of healing for these kids. We wanted them to feel at the end of the day they were extremely loved and we were there to listen. The foundation had an amazing day and we were so honored to be able to help the kids in such a way, and to mark this occasion Ubuntu Life Enterprise donated love bracelets courtesy of our maker moms.
Every single day when they look at their wrist we want them to know they are loved beyond words. We hope this gives them an avenue in which they can openly express their feelings about the trauma they experienced even if it wasn't that day.
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