We are pleased to announce that our project “Psychosocial Care for Children and Adolescents after Sexual Violence” has been selected by the Foundation for Development Cooperation Baden-Württemberg (SEZ) for funding by the state of Baden-Württemberg.
The project started at the beginning of this year and will run for 12 months. Thematically, it aims to strengthen the diagnostic and therapeutic skills of psychologists in initial reception centres for survivors of sexual violence in Burundi. Through workshops and support during implementation, they learn to identify children and adolescents who are particularly vulnerable psychologically and to implement a family-oriented intervention. The latter serves to promote the processing of sexual abuse within the family in order to reduce exclusion and stigmatisation due to sexual violence. The training and supervision of the psychologists in the initial reception centres is carried out by psychologists from our Burundian partner organisation Psychologues sans Frontières Burundi who are highly experienced in trauma therapy.

With the financial support of the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg via the Foundation for Development Cooperation Baden-Württemberg (SEZ).