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Education · Greater Cairo · 2023 – today

Equipping educators for children who have lived through crisis

Trauma-informed teaching, socio-emotional learning and safeguarding for community learning centres.

  1. 01

    The challenge

    Teachers in community schools serving displaced children see the effects of trauma every day — in behaviour, concentration and learning — often without training or support for themselves.

  2. 02

    What Impact did

    Impact trains educators in trauma-informed pedagogy and calming strategies, runs socio-emotional learning and safeguarding series for learning centres, and convenes educational leaders.

  3. 03

    Who took part

    74 teachers trained in trauma-informed teaching (Nov 2023); 89 educators at the Educational Leaders Conference; 14 community learning centres in the SEL and safeguarding series.

  4. 04

    What changed

    Teachers learned how trauma affects behaviour and learning and practised calming strategies. They also voiced a clear need for wellbeing support — which shaped Impact’s Teachers’ Wellbeing Training.

  5. 05

    What comes next

    For 2025–2026, Impact is developing pathways to literacy, numeracy, socio-emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching programs.

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    UN agency

    IOM — UN Migration

    Emergency response project in education and economic empowerment, 2023

  • El Nokhba Community School, Faisal logo

    Education partner

    El Nokhba Community School, Faisal

    Teacher training and youth sessions

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