Discover how children are surviving displacement, hunger, and trauma — and meet the local heroes fighting to give them back safety, healing, and the right to learn.
Years of violence between rebel groups and government forces have displaced over 1 million people, with more than half being children. Many have fled repeatedly, lost loved ones, or are trapped in unsafe camps without access to protection.
Nearly half the population faces acute hunger, and over 40% of children under five are chronically malnourished. Many go days without eating, and health centers are often out of reach or nonfunctional.
Children have been abducted or coerced into armed groups — forced to fight, cook, or serve as messengers. Even after escape, they face deep trauma, rejection by communities, and lack of access to education or therapy.
In the city of Bangui and conflict zones beyond, Juvenal Foundation works with children who’ve been recruited or abducted by armed groups. Their program offers safe shelter, psychosocial counseling, accelerated education, and family reunification.
Social workers gently help children process the trauma they’ve seen and help them rebuild trust with their communities. Former child soldiers are given the chance to return to school, learn vocational skills, or simply be children again.
In a country where children are often used as weapons, Juvenal Foundation helps them become whole.
Through a wide-reaching humanitarian network, Caritas CAR distributes food, water, medical care, and emotional support to children and families trapped in displacement camps or cut off by conflict. Their mobile clinics and school feeding programs are often the only source of nourishment and care in some areas.
They also run child-friendly spaces — places where displaced children can learn, play, and feel safe for a few hours each day.
Caritas CAR works where no one else can. And in doing so, they offer not just relief, but hope.
In 2023, a coalition of teachers, parents, and volunteers launched a Back-to-School Campaign in Ouaka, a region long disrupted by armed violence. Using donated tarps, salvaged desks, and chalkboards, they reopened dozens of classrooms in makeshift tents.
Children arrived barefoot, some with notebooks held together by string — but with excitement in their eyes. They wrote letters to their future selves and drew maps of their dreams.
The campaign didn’t just reopen schools. It reopened the possibility of normalcy, growth, and peace.
In a small community theater in Bangui, children gathered for the first performance of “Voices of the Valley,” a play written and acted entirely by war-affected youth. The script was based on their real stories — of fleeing home, losing parents, or dreaming of peace.
The play was part of a trauma recovery project organized by local artists and psychologists. Children used performance to express pain, laugh, cry, and connect with their community in new ways.
When the final bow came, the applause wasn’t just for the performance. It was for the courage to be seen.
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