NGO Trains Borno Youths On Managing Humanitarian Crisis

Global Village Healthcare Initiative For Africa (GHIV Africa), a non- governmental organisation (NGO) has yesterday trained 30 youths from Borno State on humanitarian services to the communities ravaged by insurgency.

The youths, according to the executive director of GHIV Africa, Mulikat Bamidele, were trained on mental health and psychological support; child protection, healthcare delivery in humanitarian crises and washing in humanitarian settings among others.

Bamidele said the need to take these services to the rural dwellers who are the major victims of the insurgency, necessitated the training to enhance the capacity of the service providers.

She said the orientation course was to strengthen the competencies of participants from humanitarian and development actors working in emergencies to establish, support and scale up mental health and psychological support services and programmes in communities.

“The focus of this training is on how to apply existing practical, evidence-based, scalable tools and practice-led approaches for successful implementation of, and as well strengthening mental health and psychological support in emergency operations, protection from mental health and psychological support consequences of the crisis, and towards the realisation of global mental health coverage,” Bamidele said.