
In war and humanitarian crisis, education collapses first. Pre-Texts in Emergency responds with a structured, arts-based protocol — drawing, theater, movement — that transforms reading into collective creation without forcing participants to verbalize trauma.
In Kharkiv, workshops with children showed that culture functions as therapeutic infrastructure. A Lancet study confirmed measurable reductions in anxiety and depression. The next mission: Abougudam refugee camp in Chad, near the Sudan border.
Education in emergencies is not secondary. It is protection.
INEE — June 24, 2026