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An
Outreach Project
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Friends
of Villagers
Foundation of Good Shepherd Sisters, Nongkhai |
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Good
Shepherd Sisters - Nongkhai 916 Prachak Rd, Nongkhai 43000 |
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| Friendship
Programme Our Sisters' work started with providing training opportunities for income-generating activities to the villagers and the establishment of Training Centres. After identifying the needs of those unable to work, we began our Outreach work with HIV/AIDS patients. |
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| Year of Establishment : 2000 | |
| Co-ordinator | |
| Sr. Lakkana Suksujit | |
| Personnel | |
| Staff: 2 Sisters, 4 staff and one volunteer | |
| Target group | |
| 1. | HIV/Aids patients (children and adults) |
| 2. | Families of the patients including their children and those caring for them. |
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area: Villages in the districts of Muang, Sak Krai , Kaw Chang, Bang Fang, Pratat, Tabor and Ban Peu. (Some cases are from the surrounding areas). |
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| Objectives: | |
| 1) | To prevent the spread of HIV/Aids amongst the youth; |
| 2) | To provide knowledge to the families of HIV/Aids patients and to the community at large, so as to foster attitudes of acceptance; |
| 3) | To improve the lives of the HIV/Aids patients through offering income-generating training skills, allowing them to help themselves economically; |
| 4) | To support the patients by offering education sponsorship to their children; |
| 5) | To work in liaison with village and district committees; |
| 6) | To liaise with government departments, NGO's and other Catholic organisations in our area; |
| 7) | To foster self and mutual acceptance among the patients by the establishment of a support group; |
| Activities: | |
| a) Survey of villages with co-operation from the district committees and villagers. | |
| b) Visitation of the houses of those identified with HIV/Aids. | |
| c) Take adult and child patients to the hospital for assessment and treatment. | |
| d) Provision of health care services at the group level and also home care in the patients homes. | |
| e) Provide sponsorship payments to the children of the patients, thus supporting the families affected by the situation. | |
| f) Give income-generating work to the patients and their families. | |
| g) Active co-operation and networking with the government, NGO's and HIV/Aids patient networks. | |
| h) Active co-operation with the village leaders and the monks, to arrange community activities which foster good relationships between the patients and villagers. | |
| i) Fortnightly activity days for the HIV/Aids patients, their children and care givers, at the Friendship Centre. Counselling and skills training in order for them to generate their own income, is offered to the adults and language tuition and group games, songs and dances are enjoyed by the children. | |
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j) Follow-up of HIV/Aids adult and child patients receiving ARV medicine from the hospitals. This involves transporting patients to regular outpatient appointments. |
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| Problems encountered: | |
| 1) | Some patients are unable to access the anti-retroviral drugs by themselves. |
| 2) | Often, HIV/Aids
infected children and those with HIV/Aids infected parents, are ostracised
at school. 3) Some patients do not wish to access hospital services for fear of their disease being known by relatives and the community, leading to unacceptance. |
| 4) | The diagnosis of HIV/Aids, often leads to depression and suicidal tendencies among those without support. This may lead to alcohol, nicotine and drug abuse and unprotected sex and may bring on premature death. |
| 5) | Some families cannot accept their relative with HIV/Aids and thus do not provide the care the patient needs. In the case of children left behind, when parents die, often such families will not take responsibility for them and refer them to other organisations. |
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Update March 2011