KITOVU MOBILE AIDS ORGANISATION

Our Vision:::::To See an Empowered Community With the Ability to Cope with HIV and AIDS and its impacts:::::

 

 

 

Peer Group counselling

School Children being counselled in groups.

 

Hero Book Making

Children being trained in Hero Book Making....

Facilitation

School teachers facilitated with bicycles after training in trauma counselling in children

 

Training

A counsellor trainining teachers in trauma counselling....

Education For Life

Teachers being trained in making a Hero book.

Youth Peer support Group

School droupouts organised into peer support groups; doing constructive work in their groups

Sensitisation

School children sensitised in basic counselling skills....

The Impacts of the trauma counselling Project. Trauma counseling sensitization to local and religious leaders, parents and guardians, in and out of school children and school teachers , more......

Counseling & Training Programme


Introduction:


Over the past two decades, counseling as a service was integrated in Kitovu Mobile care and support for HIV and AIDS infected and affected people.

The Counselling and Training Programme was uprooted in 2000 when the need for psychosocial support for orphans and vulnerable children and the skills training to increase the service providers were realized.

The Programme aims at promoting the psychosocial wellbeing of the target groups in order to mitigate the short and long term psychological problems.


Programme Goal:


To alleviate the suffering of traumatized orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) in and out of school, thus enabling them realize their full potential.

Specific Objectives:


Improved access to counselling services for traumatized orphans and other vulnerable children.


Stronger resilience among traumatized orphans and vulnerable children through Education for Life skills.


Targeted groups


Orphans and vulnerable children are the primary beneficiaries. The parents/guardians, teachers, local and religious leaders, and Community Workers are the secondary beneficiaries.


The programme focuses on two major strategies


Counselling
Training


1. Counselling


Counselling is best known for its ability to soothe the pain which people go through especially in the era of HIV and AIDS scourge. It is a psychological (inner struggles) treatment that works upon a person's mind / soul or spirit to enable him/her think positively and in the long run causes healing in the mind and body.


The clients who have ever been counseled always tell that counseling has helped them to go through difficult moments. The counsellors offer individual and group counselling to their targeted groups in different forms (bereavement, HIV and AIDS pre & post test, and family counselling etc).


2. Training


The Training strategy aims at increasing the service providers and strengthening the quality of counselling services among the targeted groups.

The training section targets people who are willing to offer counselling services especially at community level e.g. Community workers/Volunteers; School Teachers (School Trauma Counsellors); Youth (Peer Facilitators), Local and Religious Leaders; Others include Kitovu Mobile Staff, Sister NGOs on request, Religious Leaders from all denominations.

This kind of training is basically directed towards offering basic counselling skills. We have a special package for counsellors offered on request and we are in the process of establishing a Training Centre.


Training Contents:


a)HIV and AIDS pre and post test counseling.
b)Education for Life /behavior change process and communication.
c)Formation of Peer Support groups
d)Psychosocial support for orphans and vulnerable children (PSS).
e)The Journey of Life.
f)Memory Work
g)Conflict Management and Resolution.
h)Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
i)Gender awareness.
j)Human growth and development.

Training activities:


Mobilization of the targeted beneficiaries.
Sensitization of communities in the targeted areas.
Impart knowledge and equip skills on counselling and related issues.
Support Supervision for trained groups and beneficiaries


Benefits of counselling services:


Clients are helped to understand their situations.
They are helped to learn how to deal with their problems.
They are helped to live positively.
They are helped to make appropriate decisions.
They are given the right information.
Increased creativity among the beneficiaries.
Increased solidarity among the beneficiaries.
Stronger resilience among orphans and other vulnerable children.


Benefits of the Training:
Acquisition of knowledge and skills.
Improved handling of psychosocial problems (self and others).
Ease the accessibility to counselling services.
Promotion of the counselling profession.
Multiplication of service providers.
Replication of the counselling model by sister organizations.
Shared responsibility among the community and the organization at large.
Creation of voluntarism spirit among community members.


Summary:
The sensitization and the usage of the counselling services have enlightened the public on how useful counselling is. This has promoted counselling to be a powerful tool in psychosocial support. However, the counselling profession is only in its infancy stages yet the demand for counselling services is high. This stimulates the need for training more PSS service providers.

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