En este episodio, Ron Gutiérrez, Director Clínico de Servicios Legales para Niños y miembro del consejo de Family for Every Child, habla con Denisse Pérez, coordinadora de proyectos en Paicabi, sobre el proyecto Wara, una iniciativa única en respuesta a los incendios forestales de 2024 en Chile.

Si bien la ayuda inicial se centró en viviendas y necesidades básicas, Paicabi reconoció que la verdadera recuperación de los niños también implicaba sanación emocional. El Proyecto Wara, llamado así por la palabra quechua que significa "amanecer", trajo esperanza y renovación mediante el arte, la narración de cuentos y el juego para ayudar a los jóvenes sobrevivientes a expresar y replantear sus experiencias.

A través de actividades prácticas y la construcción de memoria colectiva, niños, familias y profesionales convirtieron las historias de trauma en pilares para la resiliencia, impulsando conversaciones más amplias sobre cómo la respuesta a emergencias debe centrarse en el bienestar de los niños. Escuchamos lecciones sobre innovación, comunidad y el poder transformador de la creatividad en la respuesta a desastres.

In this episode Ron Gutierrez, Clinical Director at Legal Services for Children and Family for Every Child trustee speaks to Denisse Perez, Project co-ordinator at Paicabi about the Wara project, a unique initiative responding to the 2024 wildfires in Chile.

While the initial aid focused on homes and basic needs, Paicabi recognized that true recovery for children also meant emotional healing. The Wara Project, named for the Quechua word for "dawn," brought hope and renewal by using art, storytelling, and play to help young survivors express and reframe their experiences.

Through hands-on activities and collective memory-building, children, families, and professionals turned stories of trauma into building blocks for resilience, sparking broader conversations on how emergency response must centre children’s wellbeing. We hear lessons on innovation, community, and the transformative power of creativity in disaster response.

To mark Kinship Care week 2025 Amanda is joined by Dr. Braden Clark, Founder and CEO of Relate Services and co-author of Family’s latest publication; Strengthening Kinship Care in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Kinship care is the most widely used form of alternative care globally. And can lead to better outcomes in health, education, and emotional well-being than other forms of alternative care, yet it is often under resourced and poorly supported.

Amanda and Braden discuss the limitations of current child protection systems, and highlights the urgent need for culturally inclusive, community-led solutions which reflect the lived experience of kinship carers and the children they care for.

To find out more about Kinship Care week visit: familyforeverychild.org/global-kinship-care-week

And sign up to our community of practice at: changemakersforchildren.community/landing-page/kinship-care-community

This is the third of three podcasts focusing on approaches to support the integration of Children on the Move from the Middle East and other countries to Europe. Since 2020 Family for Every Child member organizations in Italy, Greece, Germany, UK and Lebanon have been working together to develop, share and implement practices. This process of collaboration led to the creation of the Supporting Integration toolkit, designed for practitioners working with children and young people on the move.

In this episode Georgina Bereton Etheridge, Programme Advisor at Family for Every Child is joined by Friederike Vorwergk from Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachsen (The Refugee Council of Lower Saxony) to discuss the the integration of unaccompanied children and young people on the move into Europe, with a particular focus on Germany.

As of late 2023, there were around 41,800 unaccompanied minors under the responsibility of German services, primarily from Afghanistan and Syria. Friederike highlights challenges such as long waiting times for asylum decisions, lack of guardians, and inadequate accommodation.

The "Know Your Rights" project which provides information and support to young refugees and youth welfare professionals. Friederike emphasises the need for international solidarity, proper implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and a shift in political discourse to prioritise refugee rights and participation.