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The Commission witnessed on various occasions that children were particularly traumatised
by the armed conflict. For example, in Ghobeiri, it met with a family whose one of the children,
who were injured during the bombing, expressed obvious post traumatic disorder. In Aita ech
Chaab, the Commission noted the same among children playing together.
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Save the Children was planning the establishment of a Classroom-Based Psychosocial
Program, a professionally designed program to help children and youth deal with
traumatic experience. Save the Children. Alliance Lebanon Emergency Response
Team (ALERT), 23 September 2006.
251
Terre Des Hommes (TDH) in collaboration with UNICEF worked on a mental health and
psychosocial support program in psychosocial centers, in schools, and municipality in Alklayleh,
Zebkin, Jbal Albottom, Srifa, Naqoura, and Deir Kanoun Naher. WHO. Health Cluster Bulletin,
No. 7, 13 October 2006.
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Samidoun notably organized theatrical performance for children living in the Beirut suburb.
http://www.samidoun.org/?q=node/941 (retrieved on 8 November 2006).
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Under its Programme to Support and Rebuild Lebanon, the UAE delivered 166 entirely
renovated schools (108 public and 58 private) to the Ministry of Education on 18 October 2006.
They were still working on the rebuilding of 34 public and 5 private schools for 18 November
and another 9 by 18 December 2006.
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IRIN. “Lebanon: New school year gets underway with few hitches”, 24 October 2006.
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Organizations such as Save the Children worked with teachers and local organizations to
promote an environment that promotes inclusiveness and supports the mental, emotional and
physical well-being of the young.
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See Lebanon marine and coastal oil pollution international assistance action
plan, prepared by the experts working group for Lebanon, 25 August 2006
http://www.unep.org/PDF/lebanon/LebanonOilSpill_ActionPlan20060825.pdf (retrieved
on 8 November 2006). The Commission received reliable information from the Ministry of
Environment, as well as from experts in the Lebanese Council for Scientific Research, that large
quantities of sunken oil had affected algae and plankton that nourish migratory fish banks along
the Lebanese coast. Variations in the quantity of fish and in the variety of fish species will also
affect migratory birds. Furthermore, as indicated by the Director of the Lebanese National
Centre of Marine Sciences, certain turtle species, typical to the Lebanese waters, were adversely
affected and their survival may be endangered. Moreover, a large percentage of the oil spilled
had emulsified and solidified along the Lebanese shore, thus polluting sand, rock and stone and,
therefore, constituting a permanent threat to the ecosystem.
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Ministry of Environment Ministerial Brief on the Oil Spill Crisis [no date indicated].
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