Direct Services

Psycho-Social Support Group (PSSG)
in Refugee Transit Camps

Our PSSG intervention is a response to growing recognition of the need to promote psychosocial wellbeing for refugees during their forced flight. The manualized PSSG intervention aims to mitigate psychosocial effects of persecution and forced displacement, and its session topics are informed by common needs and experiences of acutely displaced refugees as well as factors that
promote long-term recovery from crisis.

See Training & Education for more information about this intervention.

Psychosocial Support

UNHCR Nyakabande Transit Centre
Friends of Kisoro’s primary location is within the Nyakabande Transit Centre, providing individual and community-oriented clinical activities for refugees including psychosocial assessments, basic counseling, family counseling, support groups, crisis support, shelter visits, advocacy, and coordinated referrals.

Kisoro Host Community
Due to COVID-19 and the temporary closure of the transit centre, for the moment, we have have shifted our focus to the Kisoro host community. FROK Social Workers have provided psychosocial assessments, basic counseling, family counseling, support groups, follow-up care, material support, advocacy, and psychoeducation through radio show broadcasts to community members in Kisoro District affected by the pandemic.