Paul Summer Talks Series - "We protect what we love" - the children's nature photography project.
- Occurring
- for 1 hour, 30 mins
- Venue
- Paul: St Pol-de-Leon
- Address Mousehole Lane Paul Truro, TR19 6TZ, United Kingdom
In this talk Lynne Jones a local child psychiatrist and aid worker will share pictures and stories of our local beautiful surroundings by children from two local primary schools. The children themselves will contribute to the talk and discuss why they like it and why it matters.
7pm for light refreshments the talk commences at 7.30pm.
£5 includes a drink, children free. Proceeds divided between church and a charity.
All are welcome.
Dr. Lynne Jones OBE is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, writer, and relief worker. Jones has been engaged in assessing mental health needs and establishing and running mental health services in disaster, conflict, and post-conflict settings around the world since 1990. She is an honorary associate professor at the Centre for Global mental Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and consults to WHO and UNICEF. Her most recent books are The Migrant Diaries, published by the Refuge Press in 2021, about her work with migrants in Europe and Central America, Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry (Wiedenfeld and Nicolson 2018), which explores her experience as a practicing psychiatrist in war and disaster zones for 25 years, along with the changing world of international relief. Her 2019 TEDx talk explores the use of photography with migrant children, and inspired the current project.