HEART: Healing and Education through Arts

Global

HEART: Healing and Education through Arts: Save the Children is using our well-respected children's education programs and our global expertise in child protection to launch HEART: Healing and Education through Art in varying contexts: Central America, the Middle East, Nepal, Malawi and Mozambique. Locally, the art interventions will include a variety of media — drawing, painting, drama, music, and dance — to strengthen the well being and resiliency of children. We will field test HEART in the West Bank and Gaza and Mozambique, where the situation for children continues to be dire and psychosocial programs are a strategic priority. HEART will then be refined and implemented in the other regions, and disseminated widely within the organization, the International Save the Children Alliance, and our local and international partners.

Kulimbikitsa Liu la Atsikana (Strengthening Girls’ Voices): Strengthening Girls’ Voices is a girls’ empowerment project, which is integrated into existing USAID-funded food security programs (DAP) and is being implemented simultaneously in Bangladesh and Malawi. Girls aged 10-19, who are in school or out of school, unmarried or married, are targeted with a range of interventions with a special focus on education, economic opportunities, health, security, leadership, voice and rights. The project aims to build the evidence-base for effective livelihoods interventions for vulnerable youth through the piloting of Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools and youth savings groups, while other activities such as the setting up of Bright Future Committees for a safer school environment and the introduction of behavioral change communication represent a scaling up of interventions, the effectiveness of which has already been documented in other Save the Children programs.