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Stepping Stones Therapy Project

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Reflections on Stepping Stones Therapy Visit Thailand is a beautiful country and rarely more so than when gazing across the river into neighbouring Myanmar. This is where all our children and families are from, displaced due to the civil war. In recent years, during a period of relative peace and hope, many families returned to their homeland but the escalation in military raids and fighting in 2021 forced many to flee again. The children, as ever, are innocent of the politics underlying their predicament and just want to grow, play, learn and be secure and happy within their family and community. There has been too big a gap between visits - that's for sure. But, our project has continued despite everything thanks to the commitment and energy of our therapy worker and collaborators - the work after all does not go away - indeed, it just grows. We see many children we've worked with for years, including Sammy here, doing his wall slides to strengthen his legs: I have also met, ...