Services / International Work

In 2004, a team from Southern Community Welfare embarked on their first international trip, combining grief and trauma training with capital resourcing in the region of Myanmar.  Previous connections gave us a fantastic opportunity to invest our resources internationally, in keeping with our policy on health and giving.
Grief & trauma management training to children’s workers in Myanmar (Burma) continued in 2005 and 2006. Our team has trained over 300 community & church leaders as well as children’s workers & carers. The feedback continues to remain very positive and continues to be reported as very valuable to the workers. These 300 workers influence the lives and care of more than ten thousand children.

In July 2007 a team visited Yangon to conduct a review and future planning for the project. This trip was very productive with the major achievement being a Memorandum Of Understanding. This cements a partnership with regards to running the Grief & Trauma Awareness Training. This enables better networking and profiling of the service making way for the training to be more accessible for a greater number of children’s workers.  It is our priviledge to be able to information share, resource and support a country like Myanmar where there is much poverty not only of economics but also of knowledge. And we are able to give from what we have to support compassionate & effective care of children.

Another trip will be made to Myanmar in 2008. Stayed tuned for the outcome of this trip.