Counseling Is Provided To The Many
Victims Of Horrible Violence
Omega Foundation is presently involved in working with government and various church organizational leaders in dealing with the after-effects of genocide in central Africa. Over 3,000,000 (three million) people have been killed through genocide since 1994 in Rwanda, Birundi, and the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
With the cooperation of the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Reconciliation and church organizations, we have conducted professional training programs for counselors in the field of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.). In Kigali, Rwanda, the program offered training for one man and one woman from each district of Rwanda (approximately 250 people) for one week. The trainers were from the U.S. and were selected because of their special backgrounds of professional education and experience (resumes available upon request). These professional people paid their own expenses and donated their services. All funds raised by Omega Foundation went for local costs of the seminars.
A similar conference was conducted in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2005, with a follow-up session six months later organized and administered by local African leaders.
Our program is designed to bring emotional and spiritual healing to the many thousands of individuals suffering from P.T.S.D. as a result of the unbelievable horrors they witnessed, the extreme losses they suffered, and the dire circumstances they have been left to cope with.
Other training and counseling sessions are planned for remote areas of this "Great Lakes Region" of central Africa, and they will be conducted as funds become available. You can support this work by making donations of any amount to the Omega Foundation.
