PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR ORPHANS AND ABUSED CHILDREN
Children playing in Negros Oriental
(starting in January 2011)
The Negros Oriental Children’s Advocacy Network (ONCAN) is a network of 30 organizations working with children in the Province of Negros Oriental. Based on the mapping of ONCAN members in 2010 the psychological support services to children in need ranked as a first and most urgent among most of the network members.
Many orphans and abused children need counseling to overcome traumatic experiences, but this service is not locally available or not affordable for the participating NGOs supporting and caring for these children.
Together with ONCAN Werde is now surveying the particular needs of 20 NGOs within the ONCAn Network and based on recommendations of this survey will support and initiative to provide this much needed service.
The Werde will support salary of the psychologist, which is estimated to be around 500 Euro/month, and ONCAN members will cover all associated costs of providing the service which will give individual and group counseling to those children most in need.
