HAVEN: A Cooperative AI System for Trauma-Sensitive, Culturally Grounded Educational Content Generation in Low-Resource Humanitarian Settings

Pedagogical tools for learners living in conflict zones remain scarce, leaving volunteer educators to shoulder substantial cognitive and emotional burdens while creating trauma-sensitive, culturally grounded teaching materials under severe resource constraints. Volunteer educators conducting unpaid virtual sessions without institutional support face high cognitive and emotional load while creating trauma-sensitive, culturally grounded teaching materials. To tackle this, we developed \textsc{Haven}, a cooperative AI system specialized with a cultural grounding agent that assists volunteers with teaching material creation. Indonesian cultural heritage is used as an intercultural pedagogical bridge, grounding English lessons in culturally rich content without requiring volunteers to simulate learners' own heritage traditions. Our evaluation trials suggest that HAVEN’s cultural grounding mechanism changes the kinds of image-related errors that volunteer educators notice. These findings underscore that a human-in-the-selection loop is not a provisional measure but an essential check on AI image generation in non-Western heritage contexts.