Author: GRT_Tirocinanti

Children in Adversity

Children with disabilities in Nepal

The project As part of the activities in favour of disabled children and strengthening local organisations, GRT is carrying out together with CBR- Community Based Rehabilitation – of Bhaktapur the project “The Chronicity of the Earthquake” thanks to the contribution of the 8×1000 of the Tavola Valdese. It is entitled “The Chronicity of the Earthquake” […]

Slum Drummers
Children in Adversity

Slum Drummers

This project, implemented by GRT and funded by the Alta Mane Foundation, aims to improve the living conditions of street children and support the empowerment and capacity building of the CBO Slum Drummers, a musical group born from the street. The project seeks to promote the social inclusion of the most vulnerable children through art, […]

supporto ai rifugiati
Forced migration, Mental Health

Psychosocial support for refugees

Thanks to funding from UNHCR, GRT was able to set up an integrated project in Somaliland of both prevention and psychosocial intervention activities. The project targets asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced persons in Hargeisa. The focus is in particular on children, adolescents and young refugees. GRT conducted several activities with different methodologies: Training to […]

Children in Adversity, Gender Based Violence, Mental Health

Protection of victims in Somalia

GRT’s main objective for this project was to provide medical care and psychological support to displaced persons, asylum seekers and victims of gender-based violence, particularly children, in Puntland, Garowe.   The project The project aimed to provide this type of care and services during the project period and afterwards. Strengthening of institutions combating gender-based violence […]

Forced migration, Mental Health

Medicine for ethnic minorities

The first project implemented by GRT in Guatemala (specifically in the Maya K’Iche Community in Totonicapan) aimed to work with local therapists who apply traditional medicine by validating positive practices and correcting risky ones, with a focus on maternal and infant care. The training of traditional health workers was done through the ‘research – action’ […]

Mental Health

GRT in Nicaragua

In Nicaragua, GRT has implemented numerous projects with long-term results, intervening in various sectors. Mental Health The first objective was the humanisation of the psychiatric hospital in Managua, a place of dehumanising restraint, followed by the huge research effort in bringing and supporting psychiatric patients back to their families and communities. This was followed by […]

Rosalba Terranova Cecchini
Mental Health

Transcultural Psychotherapy School

In September 2017, the GRT merged with the Cecchini Pace Foundation, also founded by Professor Rosalba Terranova Cecchini. The organisation offers a school of transcultural psychotherapy, continuing education and personal services. It thus continues its commitment to the transcultural training of mental health workers and the direct care of Italian and foreign people from a […]

Children in Adversity, Mental Health

Boresha Maisha

The Project aims to improve the living conditions, psycho-physical well-being and social inclusion of the most vulnerable children in the Starehe sub-county (Nairobi, Kenya). In particular, it aims to improve health and social protection mechanisms in the areas of Mlango Kubwa and Eastleigh. GRT, together with partner organisations CCM-Comitato Collaborazione Medica, Heshima Kenya, US ACLI […]

Mental Health

Somalia on the move

GRT, in collaboration with Terre Solidali, the University of Milan, the Ministry of Health and Development – Somaliland, the Ministry of Health – Federal Republic of Somalia, IIDA, Save Somalia, GAVO is carrying out a series of interventions in Somaliland and Mogadisho to support and improve the country’s paediatric and mental health systems. The project […]

Locandina Evento
English News, Mental Health

Chains of Prejudice

Thank you! Nearly 1,000 people participated at the live broadcast or watched the recording of the meeting on Mental Health in Africa, that took place on 30 November. We are very happy and excited to have been able to share our knowledge with you. During the meeting we talked about how still hundreds of thousands […]