Registered in August 2007, this new international charity stemmed from a child-led conference held in February 2005. After the conference, the children and young people leading the workshops on grief support approached Anne Davies with a request to use their experiences and the tools and strategies developed from attending the Jigsaw4u groups to support children who had lived through the trauma and losses of the Sri Lankan tsunami. In August 2005 a team of children, young people and volunteers traveled to Sri Lanka to work with in excess of 250 children and young people affected by the tsunami. This was initiated by the children of Jigsaw4u after they led a conference and was made possible by a range of partnerships. Two volunteers are now working in Sri Lanka - a partnership between Jigsaw4u and Epiphany Trust.
In 2007 Katherine Scheepers (a Social Worker working in the East Grinstead Team) arranged a lecture/workshop tour of South Africa. As a result, we have representatives in a number of towns who want to work with us to provide a grief support service to the thousands of children and young people bereaved through the devastating impact of AIDS/HIV. Partnerships were also developed through networking and mentoring in projects working with AIDS/HIV, sexually abused children and Street Children Projects.
Jigsaw4u International is also building partnerships with:
- BOAT 14 to provide child centred facilities to families affected by the social, emotional and physically crippling disease of leprosy.
- A Peruvian charity supporting mothers and children traumatised by difficult births and children whose mothers have died giving birth to them.
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