Catholic Bishop organises trauma workshops for IDP retunees in Yola
The Catholic Bishop of Yola diocese, Dr. Dami Mamza, has organised a two day post Boko Haram trauma handling workshop for the people of Adamawa North senatorial zone who are worst hit by the insurgents’ attacks.
According to him the workshop is aim at helping them recoup from the psychological trauma they went through the years of the insurgency, knowing that the Boko Haram mayhem mitted untold hardship and has made them to lose their loved ones, homes, and their means of livelihood.
Bishop Mamza said a lot has to be done even as the security situation is improving to make sure that the thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who returned to their ancestral homes over comes the sting of trauma they are going through.
Mamza who is considered a philanthropist and known cleric to be taken care of the IDPs needs irrespective of their religion, using the 3Rs mechanism of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation to revived the traumatised IDPs in Adamawa state.
He went to the extent of consulting experts in Germany and Kaduna who specializes in reconstructing and handling people with a damaged life through all forms of militancy.
”Beneficiaries are not only drawn from the Christian circle but also includes Muslim and adherents of other religion who were also traumatized as a result of the IDPs,” he said.
