Our partners
Meet our Partners
Action for Child Trauma International (ACTI)
ACT International (Action for Child Trauma International) heals young minds in conflict: it is a UK-registered charity offering training and support to people working with children affected by psychological trauma in some of the most dangerous places in the world. Its work is impactful, cost-effective, and reliant on donations from like-minded funders such as PoM.
ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre
ARQ International, a department of the National Trauma Centre, works to strengthen mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for communities affected by war, conflict, or (natural) disaster. ARQ International provides training, staff support, research and development, and strategic advising to international and national partners seeking to strengthen MHPSS in their programmes. ARQ works with specific populations who are most affected by conflict, including children, internally displaced persons, refugees, and survivors of political and interpersonal violence.ARQ International always prioritises the experiences of local communities, ensuring that international mental health and psychosocial interventions are adapted for the local context.
Connect Children Now
Connect Children Now is an independent grassroots and rights- based non-governmental organization dedicated to upholding and advocating for children’s rights within Lebanon and its neighboring regions. Since its establishment in October 2014, CCN has emerged as a steadfast proponent of mental health and psychosocial support for refugee and displaced children and women and those bearing the impact of conflict-induced displacement. Embracing a holistic approach, the initiatives encompass emergency response, education, legal aid, protection services, advocacy campaigns, and meaningful child participation. With a clear five-year strategy in sight, CCN aspires to directly impact 21,000 children and their parents from 2020 to 2025, ensuring their safety from violence, exploitation, and neglect while facilitating accessible education.
Enthum Foundation
Established in 2018, Enthum House provides unaccompanied young people seeking asylum with a safe home and prepares them for independent life in the UK. The fusion of ‘Enterprise’ and ‘Human’ in the name symbolises the commitment to creating a supportive family for those who have undertaken arduous journeys alone, seeking safety in the UK to rebuild their lives.
Help for Orphans in Cameroon
Help for Orphans in Cameroon (HFOIC) was founded by a cognitive and clinical psychologist to improve mental health and foster positive cognition in orphans and children living in vulnerable communities in Cameroon. Since its inception in 2014, HFOIC has worked to provide psychosocial support to orphans and children displaced by the English-speaking Cameroon conflict. Its holistic approach includes psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychoeducation, child protection, and counseling services, aiming to restore wholeness by addressing both the mind and body of distressed orphans.
HFOIC’s capacity-building programs empower caregivers, staff, and volunteers with training on preventive mental health care, thriving programs, and resources to enhance children’s overall well-being. Since the outbreak of the English-speaking Cameroon war in 2016, HFOIC has reached 9,780 displaced children across six conflict zones in the Southwest region of Cameroon.
Medair
Since 1989, Medair, a Swiss humanitarian organisation, responds to conflict, disease and natural disasters so that the world’s most vulnerable and hard-to-reach people can live with dignity and hope. Medair works with an integrated approach in the sectors of health, water, shelter, and psychosocial support mainly with women, children or elderly people.
In terms of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), Medair implements activities to promote psychosocial well-being and to prevent and treat mental health conditions exacerbated by violence, natural disasters, and other emergencies. These activities included child-friendly spaces, early childhood development activities, peer support groups, individual psychosocial support, awareness sessions and mhGAP-HIG* consultations. These interventions help enhance coping mechanisms, restore supportive networks, and foster well-being and resilience in the aftermath of adversity.
In 2024, more than 150,000 people participated in Medair psychosocial activities.
* Mental Health Gap Action Programme Humanitarian Intervention Guide
Musicians Without Borders
Musicians Without Borders (MWB) uses the power of music for social change and peacebuilding. Together with local musicians and organizations, we work in communities around the world affected by war and armed conflict. Musicians Without Borders’ programs range from rock music schools to children’s orchestras, from music therapy to hip hop, from songwriting to samba. Founded in 1999 by a community of socially engaged musicians, we collaborate with local organizations and community members in conflict and post-conflict regions, developing innovative strategies to create pathways out of isolation and despair, and break the cycle of war.
Musicians Without Borders’ approach combines the art of music with the principles of our methodology: safety, inclusion, equality, creativity, and quality. This approach opens musical spaces that enable people to communicate and share. Participants experience respite, recovery and recognition, supporting their psychosocial and mental health against a backdrop of unimaginable trauma.
Save the Children
As leading independent children’s rights organisation, Save the Children has been working specifically for the rights of children since 1919. In Switzerland and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
Terra Psy – Psychologists Without Borders
The aim of the Terra Psy – Psychologists Without Borders is to facilitate the treatment of vulnerable populations by adapting practices to remove medical, psychological and social barriers.
Terra Psy is made up of a team of multilingual psychologists, trained in clinical psychology, the treatment of psycho-trauma and intercultural issues.
In France, the psychologists provide psychological care and support to people in vulnerable situations who are far removed from mental health care (migrants, persons victims of violence and gendered violence, people living in precarious situations, vulnerable children, etc.). Our psychologists also provide support to professionals in the field through training, supervision and specific expert support.
Internationally, Terra Psy provides support for displaced, exiled and refugee populations in areas where psychological support is almost (or) non-existent, as well as capacity-building for professionals in the field, local teams and NGOs.
Tutapona
Tutapona, a Swahili word meaning ‘we will be healed’, provides mental health support to people who have been affected by war and violent conflict. Using highly skilled, national facilitators, they offer group mental health support to adults and children, as well as one on one sessions, and community awareness to help change the stigma surrounding mental illness in the displaced communities where we work. Tutapona’s programs are built on Posttraumatic Growth, and aim to empower survivors, helping them rebuild resilience, regain hope, and foster mental health in the aftermath of traumatic experiences.
Since the foundation of the organization 2008, more than 70,000 people have taken part in our mental health support programming.
War Childhood Museum Foundation
The War Childhood Museum Ukraine is a part of the international platform that documents the experiences of people whose childhoods were affected by war. The Museum collects stories and related personal items and brings light to the resilience of children during the war. The War Childhood Museum was founded in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017. In 2020, the Museum opened its first international office in Kyiv.
Rural Women Centre for Education and Development (RuWCED)
The Rural Women Centre for Education and Development (RuWCED) is a nationally accredited, women-led grassroots organization based in Bamenda, Northwest Cameroon. Founded in 2008, RuWCED advances the rights, dignity, and wellbeing of women, girls, and their communities through equitable access to education, health care, livelihoods, and protection. Working at the heart of the Anglophone conflict, RuWCED has become a trusted pillar of resilience offering trauma-informed care, psychosocial education, and reproductive health support to over 10,0000 children and adolescents across conflict-affected communities. With deep local roots and a record in child-centered healing and emancipation, RuWCED continues to transform trauma into strength and build a future where every child can learn, thrive, and hope again.
War Child
We may never be able to take away all the pain that comes with war. But we can create space where children can heal. Through a creative and evidence-based approach, War Child works exclusively to enhance the innate resilience of children and their communities.
Youth Association for Development
Youth Association for Development (YAD) is a youth-focused civil society organization supporting youth-led advocacy and engagement, and working for refugees, and host communities, in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province. Since 2005 YAD’s work spans health, SRHR, education, gender, human rights, climate, government accountability, trauma, mental health issues, psychological problems, and other social and development issues.