SOUTH SUDAN: Thirty Teachers Gain Basic Counseling Skills in Wau Diocese.
Ginaba Lino
Solidarity pastoral team South Sudan has on Tuesday 3, 2021 offered basic skills on counseling to about thirty (30) teachers in Wau Diocese.
Speaking during the opening session, the team member Sr. Gabriella Farrell revealed that they are offering the training to those teachers working with traumatized children under Wau Diocese.
“We are here to offer the basic counseling skills for teachers who are working directly with children who are traumatized. The workshop itself is an intensive course and we hope that the teachers will equip themselves with basic skills so the they engage with children in appropriate way”.
She urged the teachers who are acquiring the skills to be attentive during the training because it’s not easy to work with traumatized people, adding that when they go for counseling they should apply the skills that they are going to gain through the five (5) days training.
The Vicar General Fr. Germano Bernardo Baku in his remarks called on the participants to benefit through the presentations that will be given to them.
“These five days in which you are going to stay here, use it for your benefit. We know that all this time in Wau, we are all traumatize and to have that workshop of trauma helps a lot. We would like to thank our visitors who came all the way from Juba and they will be leading you through the skills.”
Fr. Baku also appreciated the Solidarity Pastoral Team for the hard work they are doing in South Sudan.
The workshop targeted the teachers because they are key people who teach children in class and most of them are traumatized and this leads many pupils and students to drop out from school.
Solidarity has been playing a big role in South Sudan in terms of supporting the teachers and many other activities under Church in the country.
