Psychosocial Counseling & Mentoring
OMAWA provides psychosocial support for the children who are traumatised by the loss of their parents, or in need of emotional care and support. Our counsellor helps children process their emotions.
Psychosocial support is the process of meeting the physical, emotional, social and mental well being. These are the essential elements for meaningful and positive human development .It helps the child to deal with trauma, grief and anxiety related to parental illness and death. OMAWA strengthen the capacity of the extended families and communities to care and offer psychological support to OVCs and the affected households. At the family level caregivers are trained on care, support and counselling of OVCs so that the children are made to feel like members of the family. At the community level interventions includes formation and training of peer support club among the youth. It is hoped that this community group are able to offer psychosocial support on a more sustainable basis.
OMAWA conduct psychosocial support to orphans and vulnerable children in the rural district. The session are arranged based on ages the groups consist children ages 4-8, 9-14, 15-18.The psychosocial services are provided by volunteer professional counsellors
Activities under this service are:
Counselling by professional counsellor
Fan days
Play therapy
Parenting and caregiver support
Mentoring
We know that enhancement activities are at least equally important as the core scholarship activities. A mentor/counselor may help a young child/girl over-come a difficult challenge that may otherwise have led to her dropping out of school
OMAWA involves mentoring; mentoring has been done by OMAWA volunteers who provide instruction and support to scholars on a whole range of life skills. We know Mentoring increases child/girls’ knowledge on a myriad of topics important to children/girls’ development, helps develop confidence and self respect, and provides an opportunity for children/girls to have someone with whom to discuss challenges they face in life.
Mentors also serve as role models for young children/girls, most of OMAWA selected mentor are successful professional who grew up facing similar challenges as the girls. Mentoring not only benefits girls, but it also helps mentors learn new information and skills.
