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Apr 2022
58m 20s

Healing Refugee Trauma with Zarlasht Hal...

Earwolf & Jameela Jamil
About this episode

Zarlasht Halaimzai joins Jameela this week to share about her organization Amna - which works to provide psychosocial support for refugees. They discuss Zarlasht's own experience as a refugee fleeing the war in Afghanistan, how we can learn from the response towards Ukrainian refugees, the key things displaced people need, Amna's focus to creating safe spaces for children to talk and play, and more. 


 

To learn more about Zarlasht's work at Amna, check out their website: www.amna.org

You can follow Amna's work on Facebook & Instagram @amnahealing 

Follow Zarlasht on Instagram @Zarlasht_Halaimzai and on Twitter @ZarlashtH 
 

If you have a Wrong Turn of your own to share with Jameela, email a voice memo to PersonalDisasterStories@gmail.com, and we may include it in a future episode!

Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and TikTok @jameelajamil. Her Substack is A Low Desire To Please.

You can find iWeigh transcripts on the Earwolf website

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Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please, you can also find her on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

Our consulting producer is Colin Anderson.

Wrong Turns was created and produced by Jameela Jamil and Stewart Bailey.

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