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Children Advocate Best Practices for Healing |
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Children with life threatening illnesses know what helps them to heal and they have the capacity to be active participants in creating healing environments for themselves and others. “Phila Impilo! / Live Life! Children Advocate Best Practices for Healing” a 64p booklet (2008) by social anthropologist Jill Kruger, presents the experiences and recommendations of 23 children aged 6 to 13 years on illness, treatment and care.
Their insights were expressed in a participatory arts workshop in South Africa for young patients in long term hospital care for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV related illnesses. The project was carried out through Young Insights for Planning (YIP). This South African NGO works through child participation to ensure that children’s perspectives and recommendations about their daily lives are recorded, disseminated and included in official planning processes. YIP brings children directly to the advocacy process through direct presentation, print or video materials. The process described in the Phila Impilo! / Live Life! materials could be applied in paediatric wards and clinics of all kinds.
The publication project was primarily sponsored by Oxfam International, JOHAP (Joint Oxfam HIV and AIDS Program), managed by Oxfam Australia. Download it now.
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