Methodist Church Nigeria Amaudo Itumbauzo
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| Project Name: | Methodist Church Nigeria Amaudo Itumbauzo |
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| Project Description: |
Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Disabled People |
| Location: | Nigeria, Itumbauzo |
| Project Information: | Amaudo Itumbauzo is a mental health programme situated in a remote area of Abia State in southeast Nigeria. It is owned by the Methodist Church of Nigeria. Residential rehabilitation is provided to vagrant psychotics picked up from the streets in the regional towns. These patients are receiving medical treatment and vocational training in a community setting. The rehabilitation takes approximately two years and those rehabilitated are helped to reintegrate into their home environment. Usually about fifty patients are involved at any particular time. In addition, there is a community health programme that collaborates with the Ministry of Health to provide community based mental health services in three Federal States. A human rights component is also included. Recently, a community based rehabilitation (CBR) programme, concentrating on the rehabiliation of disabled children, has been established. CBM supports medicine for the centre, training of CBR field workers and occasionally vehicles to assist the community mental health programme. |
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| by Country: | Nigeria |
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