“War is dislocating. It gets inside your body and makes you into a thing, a corpse. It can dislodge empathy, hope, and joy and replace them with fear.”
, she speaks of her experience living in limbo, as a displaced person, saying:
Sarah Klaus, an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, praises Amna’s attention to the individual needs of refugees, pointing out that Amna’s work has “evolved into an evidence-based approach — one of the first — providing trauma-informed care and activities to support the youngest displaced children and families in the communities and camps where they are living.
Referencing Amna’s early childhood care and development program called Baytna , Halaimzai recalls: “I remember one particular little girl, Lala, that came into one of my groups. She would literally not touch a toy — that’s how frightened and withdrawn she was. We’d offer her all kinds of things, and she wouldn’t even pick up a crayon at the beginning — she just didn’t leave her mother’s side.
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