The incredible strength of the mentally ill and their disconcerting fragility have made possible the involvement of the Group for Transcultural Relations in mental health projects.
The Group for Transcultural Relations aims to find effective methods to support a different way of thinking and therapeutic practice from those in the West.
The aim is to provide suitable facilities for the treatment of patients.
Also to train and support local associations engaged in the care of people with mental disorders.
We offer support to the sick and their families in South America and the Horn of Africa, especially in Somalia.
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
GRT, in collaboration with Terre Solidali, University of Milan, Ministry of Health and Development – Somaliland, the Ministry of Health – Federal Republic of Somalia, IIDA, Save Somalia, GAVO is implementing a series of interventions in Somaliland and Mogadisho to support and improve the socio-health systems in the field of pediatrics and mental health in […]
The project aims at addressing the psychosocial needs of the population that has been suffering from various traumatic experience, lack of resources and deprivation. In Somali context a relevant gap between the high prevalence of mental health issues and the limited services available is registered. Therefore, the specific objective is to create new services or […]
In the independent region of Puntland, north-east of Somalia, people living in Bosaso, Bashan and Garowe continuously suffer from drought, uncertainty, deprivation. The project aims at improving life conditions of refugees and asylum seekers, facilitating and supporting primary health care and education, preventing and intervening in gender-based violence cases. The main activities of the project […]