The official inauguration of the USAID/DKU activity where the Ambassador of the US embassy in charge of foreign affairs was present and all partners in the project put a point on the start up of the program, here Haguruka presented 2 activities one of the Abunzi from kigali sector conducted mediation session and a mobile legal aid clinic where lawyers offered legal aid services to residents of Nyabugogo cells in Kigali.
The project main objectives:
1. Improving citizen’s knowledge of rights and expanding access to quality legal services.
2. Supporting justice sector actors for effective use of IECMS.
3. Strengthening Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mechanisms.
4. Identifying innovations to sustain provision of legal services while recovering from COVID-19.
The Executive Director of DIDE RWANDA alongside with LAF legal Aid Attorney introduced the DKU project into the Prisons, Gicumbi prison and Nyagatare Prison respectively.
Here Inmates will receive mental health support and receive help in accessing the justice.
they meet with the DP of Gicumbi prison and the DDP of Nyagatare prison
here they present the new project and how it will be implemented
Beginning will be the screening of the peer educators who will help others in the groups and will follow up their recovery
Here Dide will provide the following:
Psychosocial therapy in Prisons
Develop manual on prisoner mental health
Trained Prisoners on psychosocial therapy/ mental health.
Facilitate therapeutic group sessions
Monitor activities: clinical supervision, individual counseling, meeting with focal points and other prison official as needed.
First 80 peer educators will be trained and acquire the knowledge and ability to facilitate therapeutic groups, 480 volunteers inmates with psychological problems are assisted in therapeutics groups
Develop the mental health manual for prisoners is in the process.