Impacts of the Trauma Counseling Project
1. Trauma counseling sensitization to local and religious
leaders, parents and guardians, in and out of school children and school
teachers.
As a result of the above, the community came to learn about the causes and
effects of trauma and how to support and refer children for P.S.S. This has
increased community awareness and participation in children issues.
Local
and Religious Leaders of Lwengo Sub County, Masaka District during trauma
sensitization workshop.
Some of the problems experienced by children mostly the out of school are death of parents, orphan headed, negligence of parents, forced and early marriages, child abuse, domestic violence, alcoholic parents, lack of health facilities, defilement, lack of information on HIV and AIDS. Above all forced and early marriages are on an increase among the girl child.
Some
of the child mothers between 15-17 years
In Kifamba Sub County, Rakai District