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. Automatic, 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.
Psychosocial therapy will be conducted in this these selected Prisons
Activities:
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 …..
Beginning will be the screening of the peer educators who will help others in the groups and will follow up their recovery
This project is in its piloting phase and we will update you as it progress