Dimapur, November 19 (MExN): In continuation to the effort in fighting against the menace of HIV & AIDS in Nagaland, the Nagaland Development Organization (Development wing of NBCC) in partnership with Legislators Forum on AIDS (LFA) organized a State level in house training (ToT) for all the association and church leaders under NBCC from November 15 to 17 at AIDA Centre, Don Bosco School Campus, Dimapur.
NDO Office in a press release said that the idea of having ToT programme was to have better in depth knowledge on various socio-economic issues that is faced by the church and also by the infected and affected people by PLHAs. One of the findings in the process of the Training was the need of right and consistent education/information to be imparted to all the section of group of people so that the general public is aware looking at the vulnerability of the society in which we are living today.
This ToT was to seriously signal the start of complete involvement of the churches in addressing the issue for extending the psycho-social support to those who are in need. Since Nagaland is composed of different tribes, this ToT was initiated to train different tribal key church leaders who can in turn disseminate the information in their own respective association/churches up to the village level without facing any communication problems.
Handouts and other materials were also widely distributed to all the participants for their reference in the field of work.
The resource persons were Dr. Molu Jamir ART Centre Civil Hospital, Dimapur; Dr. Moa Imsong Senior Counsellor, DABA; Dr. L. Vinito Chishi LFA Consultant; Hukatoli (Trainer LFA). All together there were 50 participants.
