The world health organization (who) has published a book for children 6-11 years of age, designed to help them understand what is coronavirus how to protect yourself and cope with difficult emotions in the new and rapidly evolving reality
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
The main character, a girl, Sarah, whose mom – “the best scientist in the world”, but even she can’t find a cure for coronavirus. Sarah asks what the COVID-19 how it looks and whether it is possible to deal with it
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
The world health organization (who) has published a book for children 6-11 years of age, designed to help them understand what is coronavirus how to protect yourself and cope with difficult emotions in the new and rapidly changing reality.
In creating the books was attended by over 50 humanitarian organizations including UN Children’s Fund, high Commissioner for refugees, international Federation of red cross and red Crescent societies.
The book is called “You’re my hero. As children struggle with COVID-19”. The basis of this narrative was formed by the results of a global study in Arabic, English, Italian, French and Spanish, the purpose of which was to assess mental health and psychosocial needs of children during the outbreak COVID-19. Contribution to the project also contributed more than 1,700 children, parents, teachers and educators from different countries told how they live in the midst of a pandemic.
“This story created by children for children worldwide,” reads the press release of the Interdepartmental standing Committee on mental health and psychosocial support in emergency situations.
The main character, a girl, Sarah, whose mom – “the best scientist in the world”, but even she can’t find a cure for coronavirus. Sarah asks what the COVID-19 how it looks and whether it is possible to deal with it. To answer these questions helps a fantastic creature Ario, which in the illustrations looks like a large winged dragon with one horn.
Sarah and Ario, observing necessary precautions and the social distance, visiting children from different countries and tell them about prevention: the need to comply with self-isolation, when sneezing and coughing to hide behind the elbow, not the hand, wash hands with soap and water, etc. In the book through the dialogue of the characters are given advice on how to spend time in isolation to cope with anxiety attacks and anxiety. The publication is available in pdf format in Russian.
Kids, meet Ario – a kind, orange dragon with a horn like a unicorn, who will introduce you to #COVID19 and help you understand how to protect yourself, your families and friends from the #coronavirus
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— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) April 8, 2020