The target groups of the War Child Little Star programme
are children living as IDPs in Ingushetia and in Chechnya, who are traumatized as a result of the wars in Chechnya.The nineteen Little Star points in Chechnya and Ingushetia will each target 60 children
per month, totalling 1200 children per month. The children will be from age 7 to 14 inclusive.
The project will be implemented through the Little Star core coordination group, and the Centre for
Peacemaking and Community Development structure in Ingushetia, Chechnya and Moscow. The Little Star coordination group is made up of the programme's six most senior psychologists, who have all been engaged in the
programme from two to four years. The coordinator is Tamara Khadueva. This coordination group is answerable to the CPCD in Moscow, regularly visiting Ingushetia) and the executive director (local, based in Ingushetia).
The programme in Ingushetia is already set up, and is located in the following IDP camps/ collective centres: Bart (2 tents), Tupik 1 (2 tents), Tupik 2 (1 tent) in Karabulak; State farm 'Yandare' in Yandare
(1 tent) and Severny (2 tents), Omega school (1 tent) in Sleptsovskaya.
In Chechnya, the programme is already running in the five following villages: Sernovodsk, Orekhovo, Alpatovo, Urus Martan and Staraya Sunzha
(Grozny). New Little Star points will be opened in the following places; Komsomolskoye, Katyr Yurt, Ermolovka, Staropromyslovski raion (Grozny), Zavadskoi raion (Grozny), Leninski raion (Grozny), Oktiabrski raion,
Grozny and Chechen State University, (Grozny).
Each month, training and coordination meetings will take place for every Little Star counsellor/psychologists, conducted by the Little Star coordination group. Sometimes,
an external expert will be invited to a bi-monthly training. Once every two months, all the staff from Chechnya will come to Ingushetia for this purpose. Every second month, members of the coordination group will visit
the Little Star points in Chechnya. This means that contact will be made at least once a month. This will also be an opportunity for wages to be handed out and materials distributed.
The local authorities in
Ingushetia and Chechnya are so far unable to cope with the huge tasks in the spheres of health and education. Therefore, although CPCD has close ties with these local Ministries, including on the top level, it is not
realistic in the short to medium term to work towards handing over the progarmme to them. For several years, it will be necessary for the programme to remain supported externally. Good relations will however be
maintained with the relevant authorities, so that in the longer term, understanding will already be in place for such a potential handover, as an exit strategy.
