By Val Maasdorp | Project Leader
Island Hospice has been offering therapeutic group work and support in the Harare suburb of Mufakose to 20 bereaved children, and their guardians. The group work activities focused on assisting the children to process their losses, and the guardians were supported in their difficult task of caring for these vulnerable children. Of major sadness to both guardians and children was their inability to attend school, owing to unavailability of funds. Through the funds from Global Giving, the fees for a few of the children were paid. This intervention had an enormous impact on the sponsored children who were able to derive purpose, hope and esteem from attending school. In removing this obstacle of disappointment, they have been freed to more fully process their losses during the therapeutic group work. The observation has emphasized the benefits of twinning of clinical group work with other practical interventions (funds permitting).
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