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Healing arts for tsunami survivors.

In response to the recent tsunami, ICAF ICAF International Child Art Foundation
ICAF Industrial College of the Armed Forces
ICAF International Comic Arts Festival
ICAF International Capoeira Angola Foundation
ICAF International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue
ICAF Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation
 announces a program to help some of the 1.5 million child survivors heal and resume healthy lives through art therapy.

ICAF has collaborated with psychological experts who helped 9/11 survivors overcome their trauma to create a three-phase program. Teachers, psychiatrists This list includes notable psychiatrists.

Individuals listed below are all physicians, and are board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, or are members of the American Psychiatric Association, or the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, or
, art therapists and ICAF's partner organizations in Asia and Africa are helping put the plan into action.

With Healing Healing
See also Medicine.

Achilles’ spear

had power to heal whatever wound it made. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad]

Agamede

Augeas’ daughter; noted for skill in using herbs for healing. [Gk. Myth.
 Arts for Tsunami Survivors, ICAF affirms its faith in the healing power of art. The goal is to help child survivors create artwork about the tsunami. Hopefully, the children will be able to express feelings and emotions through art that they cannot say in words.

The artworks This article is about the software drawing application. For art objects, see work of art.

ArtWorks is an advanced vector drawing package for RISC OS created by Computer Concepts (now Xara) in 1991. It has been developed by MW Software since 1996.
 on this page were created by children in the Healing Arts for Tsunami Survivors program in Hambantota, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (srē läng`kə) [Sinhalese,=resplendent land], formerly Ceylon, ancient Taprobane, officially Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, island republic (2005 est. pop. . Art workshops were held at Zahira College and were run by Colombo Children's Book Society, ICAF's partner in Sri Lanka.

For more information and to learn how you can help, visit the Healing Arts for Tsunami Survivors website at tsunami.icaf.org.
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