[Photo above courtesy of Edja Foundation]
Global Gratitude Alliance helps transform
intergenerational trauma into intergenerational healing -
through programs that provide mental health resources to the most
vulnerable communities around the world.
This summer, we are traveling to Kanungu, southwest
Uganda, to teach somatic-based trauma healing and
counseling skills to school teachers at Nyaka AIDS Orphan Project and local community
leaders through Edja Foundation - serving 40,000 children
orphaned by HIV/AIDS and 7,000 grannies who are caring for them - some
of them raising 5 or 6 children on their own.
[Photos courtesy of Nyaka AIDS Orphan Project: Students and Grannies]
The children not only suffer from trauma from watching their
parents die of HIV/AIDS, but many have become targets of sexual
violence. Like the little 5-year old girl raped by her grandfather,
who contracted HIV from him because her family couldn’t afford the $6
medication that would prevent transmission of the virus... or the
9-year old girl who was raped by a 35-year old man, who tried to
apologize by offering the girl's granny a goat.
Our inspiring partner, Edja Foundation, founded by SETH
graduate, Tabitha Mpamira-Kaguri, is working with the community to end
violence against women and children - to change the culture of
silence and shame, educate survivors about their rights,
and empower community members to protect the safety of women and children.
Your donations will fund training for Nyaka teachers and staff,
local community leaders, and Edja Foundation clinic workers in
trauma healing and counseling, address the
victim-perpetrator cycle of abuse among boys and
men in the community, and help our local partners implement
trauma healing programs in the community.
Check out this 1 min. clip of Edja Foundation founder talking about the SETH program:
