Gender Violence: UKaid, NGO trains 30 Community members on Psychological First Aid in Zamfara.
Ahmed Attahir
A UKaid Funded Non governmental organization, International alert have trained 30 community members on psychological first Aid for survivors of Gender Base Violence (SGBV) in Zamfara state.
Speaking at the end of 2 day training workshop which ended today in Gusau, Zamfara state capital, Fatima Inusa the Gender, Equity and Social Inclusive officer International alert disclosed that participants were drawn across Security, CSO's, Nurses and Human rights Organizations in the state.
"The 30 Community members who are the first responders were from three local government areas of Gusau,Tsafe and Birnin Magaji in the state".
According to her,the capacity training is to Acquaint participants who are community first responders on how to support women,Girls in the aftermath of abuse.
"You will note that the cases of Sexual Gender Base Violence (SGBV) is on the increase, particularly in some states where there has been increase in conflict,a lot of people are very skeptical about making this report of SGBV, they don't know where to report, sometimes they are not aware about the organization on where to report in the event of the Abuse".
She further explained that the workshop is to equip the community first responders with knowledge on how to tackle the issue of sexual Gender Base Violence,"how to communicate with people that were abuse,safely repair them without putting the victims and first responders at risk".she added.
"One of the things that inform this capacity training is that, there is a lot of barrier to reporting SGBV and some of this thing is the issue of confidentiality, people are not trained to actually know you're suppose to keep issue that were share with you confidential".
She stressed that we are in era of technology, peoples takes pictures of SGBV and post them online causing further harm to other person.
"We are also equipping the participants with skills and ethics on how to handle survivals, focuses specifically on survival centred approach ,which says dignity of the survivals, don't discriminate them, maintained their confidentiality and treat them with dignity".
The Gender,Equity and Social Inclusive officer, International alert maintained that at the end of the training they hope the participants would take home the skills and knowledge acquired in proper management of SGBV and would work with community leaders,parents and would share the information where they work in the state.
A participant of the training from Birnin Magaji local government lauded the effort of International alert for organizing the event,saying that the program is timely considering the alarming increase in SGBV in the area.
She assured to translate what they have learned on Psychological First Aid to their community to mitigate the issue of gender violence in the area.
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