The NGO Girls and Tetiana Khodakivska, the director of the film “The Blue Sweater with a Yellow Hole”, developed a practical toolkit “Hearing Them Out: a Trauma-Sensitive Approach to Interviewing Children and More”.
The goal of this guide is to ensure the children’s best interests are the top priority for anyone researching this issue, namely, journalists, activists, prosecutors, and lawyers.
The guide provides practical advice on how to prepare for interviews, how to behave during the interview and deal with traumatic and sensitive topics, and how to process the information received. It also contains practical exercises that can help relieve stress if a child or an interviewer feels anxious during the interview.
The guide was developed as a part of the “Giving a Voice to Ukrainian Children Returned from Forced Deportation from Russia” project with the support of Terre des Hommes. Illustrations were made by Alevtina Kakhidze from the sketches for the documentary-animation film “The Blue Sweater with a Yellow Hole” directed by Tetiana Khodakivska and produced by Pronto Film.
