In orderto o¡er psychosocial support for children and adolescents in the Darfur refugee camps, UNICEF established a large number of so-called Child Friendly Spaces. This article describes a training for model animators, who later gave an on-the-job training to the animators in the facilities.This had a substantial e¡ect on the quality of the support the animators o¡ered to the children.