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 Posted - 26 Jan 2008 : 16:43:20
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Gambian Red Cross Society Holds Home Base Care Training
By Bakary Seedy Dampha
A five day Intensive Home Base Care training workshop organized by the Gambia Red Cross Society kicked off on Monday 21 January, 2008 at the Sinchu Baliya Community Clinic.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Lamin Fatty, the Western Region Branch Officer, welcomed the volunteers of GRCS to the training and urged them to be very keen and vigilant to the subject matter. He said that home base care is challenging and that he would challenge volunteers to make the training as participatory as possible in other to overcome such challenges when it comes to practical delivery.
Samba Njie, the Voluntary Management Officer of GRCS, for his part, said that home base care is essential in the sense that after completing ones training, one will immediately start the work of Home Base Care that will enable the monitoring of ones activities as HBC volunteer. He said that the training marks the beginning of another badge to the team; that this will create an effective networking system within HBC volunteers in the Western Region and Kanifing Municipality . Mr. Njie further said that the training involves practical delivery; that this is why it is important to take it seriously.
The HIV/AIDS Program Coordinator of GRCS, Mrs. Aunty Fatou Gaye, disclosed that the GRCS Home Base Care started as far back as 2002 with only 7 volunteers. She said it is through their conserted efforts and dedication to the services of home base care that has made it possible for this team to be trained. Mrs. Gaye, however,
reminded that the service is pure volunteerism and that therefore no body should expect a penny She concluded that they still remained as the volunteers of GRCS to fulfill their promises of voluntary service to the community.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
No. 11/2008, 25 - 27 January, 2008
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