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By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

To shine a light on the importance of its work in this area, MSF turned to a technique that has worked well for it in the past — utilizing first-person accounts from both children and adults who benefit from it. Amid the package’s many elements are two 4-inch-by-7.5-inch postcards featuring illustrations drawn by patients expressing their fears, their experiences and the situations and surroundings that have caused their emotional distress — in this case, the 2004 tsunami and ongoing violence in countries around the world. The exercises that produce the drawings are stepping stones to recovery for the patients, Papsadore said.