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Grace Society NGO Organization Members

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Grace Society Key Issues and Operational Areas, Major Activiities & Achivements

Operational Districts: Lunglei

Operational States: MIZORAM

AchieveMents: Grace Society NGO Achievemnet Grace Society is a Church based Organization set up by the Mizoram Baptist Women Fellowship (MBKHP), to address the various social problems existing in the society. The organization mainly deals with the increasing problems of HIV/AIDS & Drug/Substance abuse in the community, in the field of Prevention, Intervention, Care and Support and Rehabilitation. It also deals with various women and children issues and addresses other vulnerable areas of the society. The organization has been working in Targeted Intervention programme since 2000, beginning with intervention among Commercial Sex Workers, followed by Core Composite of FSW & IDU in 2008, and with MSM and Spouses of IDU adding to the intervention since 2010. Mission Statement: 1) To create a better, healthier and harmonious society by reducing HIV/AIDS and Drug/Substance abuse in the society. 2) Economic empowerment of PLWHA and drugs victims, by providing rehabilitation through skill training and Income Generating Programme. 3) Social and economic upliftment of destitute women. 4) Promoting and facilitating behaviour change among those practicing high-risk behaviour and people living with HIV/AIDS. Vision/Goal: To create a better, harmonious, healthier society and improved economic condition by reducing HIV/AIDS and addiction in the community. Objectives: Increase awareness on HIV/AIDS and addiction among general population as well as high risk/marginalized communities, intervention to promote behavior change and harm reduction among high risk group, providing care and support to the affected, detoxification/de-addiction and rehabilitation through skill building, capacity building to enhance service delivery. 1. Targeted Intervention among FSW, IDU, MSM, & Spouses of IDU – Sponsored by MSACS, the programme includes peer education and outreach, focus group discussion, awareness, community events, STI clinic & general healthcare, abscess management, counseling, condom promotion, needle syringe exchange programme, referral to ICTC, ART, TB/DOTS centre, crisis response and management, empowerment of community, advocacy. 2. Integrated Program on drugs & HIV/AIDS – This mostly focus on aftercare program such as psycho-social support for recovering addicts through self help group meetings and support for income generation activities, educational support, support for skill development training to recovering addicts, care & support to PLWHA such as sponsorship for ART/Hospice referral, nutritional support to children of PLWHA, advocacy among church leaders, community leaders, school teachers & raising awareness among students, training among volunteers on sex and sexuality. This project is in partnership with TearAustralia. 3. Rehabilitation Center (Chhawmdawlna In) - This centre is set up by the Mizoram Baptist Women Fellowship in its own initiative the same time DIC was set up. Today the Rehab Centre can accommodate 30 boys and 20 girls at a time. It offers services like detoxification, Counseling, Meditation, Healthcare, Work therapy (including vegetable/flower gardening, Pig rearing, Dairy farming, Candle making etc), Physical Activity (Volleyball, badminton, table tennis) Rehabilitation through Skills training (including Electronics repairing, Bamboo craft, Carpentry, Tailoring and Flower making), Library, non-formal education to school going inmates.These programs besides TI are somewhat filling in the gaps that are not covered under TI. Each project complements and supplements each other. Having both DIC and Rehab is advantageous for target population in terms of referrals (as DIC clients are being referred to the Rehab for detox/deaddiction and rehabilitation while inmates released from Rehab are followed up from DIC). 4. Mental Health Program : One of the new project taken up by the NGO since 1st April , 2016 under National Health Mission in collaboration with National Mental Health Program.The Program mainly ensure the availability and accessibility of minimum mental health care for all in the foreseeable future particularly to the most vulnerable and underprivileged section of the population to encourage application of mental health knowledge in general health care and in social development and to promote community participation in mental health service development by organizing many awareness campaign & free clinic to reduce suicidal tendency in various department,school,colleges,church and sectors. 5. Home Visit, Nutritional & PLWH Support : Besides TI project, NGO give important to the client that almost every year the staff/NGO conducted house to house visit program trying to identify all hidden client and aware of each clients health condition so that follow –up program can be easily done as per client condition. Also, NGO continues significant ministry by giving nutritional support to positive child and rendering service and care to the positive client whose condition are in below average normal life to elevate their Condition.This support for nutritional and PLWHA mostly comes from charity and donation.