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“When the children first arrived here, they looked haggard, malnourished and dirty. Most of them were wounded, had scars, rashes, and skin disease such as scabies,” said the shelter social worker.

It is not an easy process for small children to understand and manage their own feelings towards the separation and traumas. That is why Save the Children is planning to work with a team of local psychiatrists to provide psychosocial support and individual counseling for needy children as well as mothers.

The four-year-old Meah* was left behind by her own mother at Surat Thani shelter in southern Thailand in March 2015.