The children left behind by covid-19
Live MintR has been promised that his parents will be home soon. “We have also found cases of incest,” Protsahan India Foundation’s founder-director, Sonal Kapoor, says. How will children heal this trauma if they don’t express their feelings?” It was this thought of what a “covidorphan” might be going through emotionally that led Delhi’s Arjita Saxena to tweet last week that she wanted to adopt a child. Also, there is not enough trauma-informed counselling to help a child deal with the grief of losing a parent.” Thinking ahead Realising the need to care for children’s mental health, some platforms offering free online activities have been set up to engage youngsters who are alone at home because their parents are in hospital or quarantining. Best to communicate it to them.” For instance, when Whitefield Rising, a collective of resident associations in Bengaluru, started getting more distress calls about children, it issued an advisory that parents must plan for who would take care of their child if they fell ill. “We have asked people to plan.