Dear all,
The smile is stretched cross- continent as the staff at the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot and the BBP team and supporters in the States are marking the start of a huge step for addressing mental health on the Thai-Burma border. The new Counseling Center is underway, as the building plans are now being discussed.
The Counseling Center will be the focal point in MTC for any issues related to trauma and mental health problems. It will do this by providing counseling services, facilitating counseling & mental health awareness trainings and meetings, creating independent counseling curriculum and documentation, and housing resources for dealing with relevant dilemmas. The center’s staff will be comprised of counselors with a range of experience and will have a constant agenda of fostering experience and developing new counselors.
While trauma isn’t as visible as some severe medical injuries—it oftentimes paralyzes the victims just as well. Thus, we are excited for the anticipated two-fold impact: those who have already been trained in addressing trauma issues can now practice, develop their abilities, and independently incorporate these skills in the community AND people who are wounded from the natural trauma that ensues such gross abuses now have a stable place to turn to, be cared for, and take another step in reclaiming their future!
On another note, it was Thai mother’s Day this past week and we at BBP, in viewing the bittersweet holiday, were reminded of why it is so essential to continue supporting SAW’s efforts to care for children who have no family to turn to. When the SAW middle-school’s principal requested that all the children call their mothers to thank them, you could see the enthusiasm beaming in many children’s’ faces and the anguish in many others in within one blink of an eye. The silver lining is that (for those unlucky children who do not know where-- or even if-- their mothers are living) the amazing staff at Social Action for Women provide stable shelter and warm care. While sitting next to SAW member Thin Thin at the Mother’s Day reception, I turned to her and whispered “What you do is amazing; you are angels—their angels.”
For more information on their school; you can look at the Winter-end Quarterly in our Publications section, under “Media.”
Take care,
Danielle
The smile is stretched cross- continent as the staff at the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot and the BBP team and supporters in the States are marking the start of a huge step for addressing mental health on the Thai-Burma border. The new Counseling Center is underway, as the building plans are now being discussed.
The Counseling Center will be the focal point in MTC for any issues related to trauma and mental health problems. It will do this by providing counseling services, facilitating counseling & mental health awareness trainings and meetings, creating independent counseling curriculum and documentation, and housing resources for dealing with relevant dilemmas. The center’s staff will be comprised of counselors with a range of experience and will have a constant agenda of fostering experience and developing new counselors.
While trauma isn’t as visible as some severe medical injuries—it oftentimes paralyzes the victims just as well. Thus, we are excited for the anticipated two-fold impact: those who have already been trained in addressing trauma issues can now practice, develop their abilities, and independently incorporate these skills in the community AND people who are wounded from the natural trauma that ensues such gross abuses now have a stable place to turn to, be cared for, and take another step in reclaiming their future!
On another note, it was Thai mother’s Day this past week and we at BBP, in viewing the bittersweet holiday, were reminded of why it is so essential to continue supporting SAW’s efforts to care for children who have no family to turn to. When the SAW middle-school’s principal requested that all the children call their mothers to thank them, you could see the enthusiasm beaming in many children’s’ faces and the anguish in many others in within one blink of an eye. The silver lining is that (for those unlucky children who do not know where-- or even if-- their mothers are living) the amazing staff at Social Action for Women provide stable shelter and warm care. While sitting next to SAW member Thin Thin at the Mother’s Day reception, I turned to her and whispered “What you do is amazing; you are angels—their angels.”
For more information on their school; you can look at the Winter-end Quarterly in our Publications section, under “Media.”
Take care,
Danielle
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