To address the psycho-social needs of children throughout nearly a dozen countries devastated by the tsunami, selective in-service teacher training will be supported to equip teachers with specific methods and activities, UNICEF said.
While limited in their capacity and depth of the response to shock, teachers can still be trained to carry out activities which allow children, many of them orphaned, to share their feelings and to better cope with the aftermath of the disaster. In addition, teams of child counsellors will be trained and sent to schools.
That’s the UN, striking directly at the desperate needs of people stricken by the tsunamis.
As has been the case since Election Day, much of the attention is focused on King County. Republicans are asking questions about why the county’s list of registered voters who cast valid ballots in the election shows about 3,500 fewer people than the total number of votes certified in the race.
It’s the new super-democracy where the Will of the People is made manifest in ballots from heaven.
P.S. Some other observations on voting irregularities and Old Media coverage.
Q: Sir, how do we win the war in the media? It seems like that is the place where we’re getting beat up more than anybody else? I’ve been here - this is my third tour over here and we’ve done some amazing things. And it seems like the enemy’s Web sites and everything else, they’re all over the media and they love it. But the thing is everything we did good, no matter if it’s helping a little kid or building a new school, the public affairs sends out the message, but the media doesn’t pick up on it. How doe we win the propaganda war?
— A solider in Mosul, asking the big question of Secretary Rumsfeld
Apparently another soldier in Tikrit asked a very similar question. I wonder if any journalists will ask themselves why our troops would consider them a propaganda source for our enemies?