By Val Maasdorp | Clinical Manager
The Guardian Support Group sought to engage primary caregivers of bereaved and HIV positive children in psychosocial support. Twenty (20) women caring for over seventy (70) children were engaged in six (6) group sessions. The focus was on understanding and working with the complexities associated with caring for these vulnerable children and to offer therapeutic support to these guardians.
Feedback from the group members contained great appreciation of this intervention, seeing it as a positive deviation from the usual NGO programs focusing only on material provisioning. Among other positives, the group was said to have created a sense of togetherness, a realization of not being alone. The group members provided enormous support to each other and an opportunity to focus, for a change, on themselves, and the expression of emotions they rarely have the time or luxury of addressing.
Given the success of this group and its impact on both the guardians and on the orphans they care for, it is our wish to replicate this program to all our areas of our operation.
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