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Vestfold
Mental Health Care Trust (PiV) is a mental health institution with a
department for children and young people in Vestfold, Norway. For three
years now, PiV has been implementing a project called “ Psychosocial
Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children “ in Malawi cooperating
with local partners such as the Chisomo Children's Club and the Alinafe
Community Hospital. The project has been coordinated by the Norwegian
Church Aid (NCA).
The Alinafe
Community Hospital is a rural district hospital, which promotes a
community based approach and runs a Nutrition and Rehabilitation Unit (NRU)
and an Orphan Care Program. There are 126 villages and about 6000
orphans registered in Alinafe's catchments area. In most of the
villages there are Community Based Child Care Centres (CBBCs), run by
volunteers and supported by social workers from Alinafe. The children at
CBBCs are aged between 3 to 8 years old, some are orphans and many are
affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the older children are unable to
attend school due to poverty and lack of support.
In 2010, a
small team of ICDP trainers from PiV ran two ICDP training workshops for
social workers and volunteers involved in the work at the CBCCs and the
NRU.
Photos from
an ICDP workshop: participants in a role play
The ICDP
approach was applied in building sensitive and caring relationships and
interaction particularly with children suffering from malnutrition and
neglect. There was recently an overwhelmingly positive feedback from the
participants who successfully integrated ICDP in their daily work. PiV
is now preparing a new 3-year project in cooperation with the Norwegian
Church Aid, which includes further training in ICDP for workers at
Alinafe Community Hospital and Chisomo Children’s Club.
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