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  • Watching The Magic Heart at a Port-au-Prince children's centre. The film can evoke difficult feelings, and is shown to small groups or individuals by facilitators skilled in counselling

  • Early scene from The Magic Heart. Jacques (right) likes making models of his house destroyed in the earthquake, but gets angry quickly and fights with other children

  • But all Jacques wants in the whole world is for his sister, Antoinette, to start eating and speaking again. He is terrified he will one day lose her, like he did their parents

  • After watching the film, children are encouraged to express their feelings about it in a variety of ways. Here, a group makes puppets based on what they've seen

  • Gregoire is a CRS psychologist who is using The Magic Heart with children who remain deeply affected by the earthquake, as a way of slowly helping to unlock feelings

  • Shooting The Wishing Ring against a Port-au-Prince model of hillside houses. All the set details, down to the walls and market stall construction, reflect typical features of the city

  • Wishing Ring: Restavek Annette believes the ring will make all her wishes come true if she obeys its rules and is kind to others, like the disabled Etienne, who has hurt his leg

  • Eyes glued: Watching The Amazing Machine at a school in Delmas, Port-au-Prince

  • The Amazing Machine was first created for children in Haiti, but, now also dubbed into Sierra Leonean Krio, the background is just as fitting for Freetown, a city sharing many physical characteristics - and problems - as Port-au-Prince

  • Overflowing rubbish skips contribute to the solid waste problem in Port-au-Prince, a key theme of The Amazing Machine. Together, we can make changes happen. The magic is in you!

  • Making hand puppets at the No Strings workshop. These facilitators will encourage children to use a series of puppets to explain disease transmission routes, with WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene) the second key theme of The Amazing Machine, along with solid waste

  • Bringing the concept of disease transmission to life through a range of fun puppets, here Germ and Treated Water. The set includes a mouth, hand, and soap - there's even a Mr Poop!

  • A schoolgirl acts out 'cholera' with natural theatricality and imagination

  • Schoolgirls with No Strings puppet trainer Lisa Buckley

  • Mr Soap, a puppet made from a sock to combat the disease bad guys

  • Michael Frith's original design of stray dog Buddy

  • Buddy on set with puppeteer Jim Kroupa

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