Psychosocial Support in Emergencies: Critical for Syrian Children

This report aims to provide Syrian children with a platform to make their voices heard. Their stories highlight the urgent need to address the psychosocial well-being of children affected by the Syrian civil war, and in all emergencies. Syrian children clearly identified the key conflict-related factors negatively impacting their psychosocial well-being, both from their experiences in Syria and in their new lives as refugees. When in Syria, they faced conflict-related risks and lack of protection from conflict violence. Both in Syria and as refugees in Lebanon, they lack access to education and recreation and struggle to cope with changes in their parents’ behaviour and support. They now want to feel safe, go to school, play outside and ‘be children’.