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Skills training for amputees, IDPs

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    A total of 400 amputees and people with severe lacerations are receiving skills training under a programme run by a non-governmental organisation, Cause Canada, OCHA noted in its ‘Humanitarian Situation Report’ covering 17 June - 10 July.

    The beneficiaries are from Freetown’s Murray Town and Grafton neighbourhoods.

    They include 195 internally displaced persons with severe lacerations, while the rest are amputees. They are being taught shoemaking, soapmaking, arts and craft, tailoring, hairdressing, gardening, masonry and basic management skills. The NGO is also planning programmes for single mothers and temporary shelter, OCHA reported.

    Another NGO, World Hope international, is working with at least 500 amputees from across the country, according to OCHA, which said Hope planned to organise trauma-healing workshops in Freetown for the amputees and their caregivers.

    Emergency, an Italian NGO which specialises in urgent surgery and treating war-wounded, is transforming a former satellite clinic at Goderich into an orthopedic surgical centre, OCHA reported. The NGO will also train health personnel in various specialisations, including anesthesia and intensive care treatment.

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