GAVO Somaliland

"GAVO Believes that All People deserves equality and should find an obligation to volunteer in the service to humanity "

GAVO Community Mental Health Program

GAVO Has Started mental health activties in Burao, Togdher Region opening up the outpatients department of the new community-established Burao Mental Hospital June 2007.

Berbera Youth-Multi-purpose centre is becoming a Hub for Berbera youth.

- Internet Access

-Library

-Meeting and Conference Room

Helping People to help themselves

GAVO Community Mental Health Initiative

Increasing mental health challenges in Somaliland

In 2007, GAVO Mental health program has made a significant achievment towards improving the mental health situation in Somaliland. Working in three regions, Sahil-Berbera, Togdher-Burao and Marodijeh-Hargeisa the program supported the three mental hosptials of these three cities with additional incentives, medications, training for the staff, provision of sanitation and hyginve facilities and provision of minor rehabiliations to the old and appalled structures. In the year of 2007 only, 326 patietns have improved in the two hospitals of Berbera (139) and Hargeisa (187), while 25 outpatients were selected to be treated at Burao mental hospital. Apart from this, due to the emerging situations or circumstances, such as droughts, chronic unemployment with poverty, and regional instability there are a high number of newly developed mentally ill cases appearing on the streets of the big cities in Somaliland.
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Baseline survey on HIV/AIDS have been conducted in Four Somaliland regions 2008

in April and May 2008, GAVO HIV/AIDs program has conducted a Baseline survey in the four main

regions of Somalialnd, Togdher-Burao, Sahil-Berbera, Marodijeh-Hargeisa and Awdal-Borama. The purpose of this survey was to collect the proper information on HIV/AIDs in these four regions particulalry to gauge the efficiency and activities of the Local NGOs who are involved in this field. During the survey a team made up of GAVO HIV/AIDs program officer (Mr. Ahmed Omer), GAVO Gender project officer (Mr.AbdiAziz Hirsi) and GAVO HIV/AIDS Consultant (Mr Rogazian Massue) have perfored the actvitieis and they also organized consultation meetings with all HIV/AIDs involved LNGos in these four regions.
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The BYMDC is a community driven programme which was established in 2005.The idea and the need to establish the center was first felt by GAVO, the youth-based, non-profit organization which has been working in Somaliland since 1993. GAVO, having witnessed unbearable problems young people were facing, especially children and youth in Berbera town and the villages surrounding the town, problems such as high illiteracy level among the general public and particularity among children and youth; young people involvement in risks behaviours such as drug abuse and other delinquent behaviours; inadequate social and economic infrastructure, the concern to find a solution to the problems were necessarily urgent.

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GAVO (General Assistance and Volunteers organization) waa hay'ad samofal wadani ah oo u adeegta taakulaynta qaybaha bulshada ee aadka u tabaalaysan sida: dadka xanuunada dhimirku hayaan, caruurta duruufaha adag ku jira, Horumarinta dhalinyarada iyo qaybaha kale ee bulshada ee u baahan taakulaynta...
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