Psychosocial support

The growth and development of children and youth particularly at risk following humanitarian disasters and; deserves special consideration. The primary objective of psychosocial programming is to restore or improve well-being on a mental/psychological and a social/ collective level. Psychosocial (PSS) programming can focus on the individual, household and/or the community level. It can take many forms, ranging from child-cantered and school-based interventions to community mobilization initiatives. This approach helps relieve some of the grief, and suffering that people experience after the loss of family members, possessions and perspective for the future caused by emergencies.

With the support of UNICEF, the organization has implemented many conflict-sensitive PSS and life skills training particularly in schools and TLSs in many parts of the country following; floods, outbreak of conflict and cattle rustling, thus enabling thousands of children and youth recover from trauma.