IDPs’ camp. PHOTO: hrw.orgThe Mandate Health Empowerment Initiative (MHEI), an NGO said on Friday it would carry out trauma intervention for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East in 2018.
Mr Ameh Zion, MHEI President, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the intervention organised in collaboration with the Presidential Initiative for North East would take place in the first quarter of 2018.
Zion said that the intervention was aimed at providing the needed psycho-social support and rehabilitation to victims of the crisis in the region.
He noted that although the crisis was presently minimal, its impact on citizens within the region was great hence the need to provide not just material and medical support but also trauma and psychological intervention.
According to him, the kind of support the IDPs will be requiring this moment is mostly trauma related. There are still pockets of emergencies but our intervention will be trauma based.
NGO to carry out trauma intervention for IDPs in Northeast in 2018
