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SACH-SCAC (social counseling and assistance center)
SACH-Social Counseling and Assistance Center for afghan and non- Afghan Refugees is providing community services and legal aid services in Pakistan including Somalis, Iraqis, Iranian, and others.

The main aims of the project are:

	To ensure that the vulnerable urban non-Afghan refugees receive basic assistance for their socio-economic, medical and psychological, education and protection/security needs till a durable solution is found for them.
	To enable refugees, to take better and well informed decisions regarding solutions to their problems through mutual consultation and participation.
	To identify vulnerable refugee minors, especially the working and the un-accompanied, and to provide protection and care to them.
	To work for empowerment of refugee women and to minimize the existing gender-based discrimination in all aspects of their life, through adequate participation and representation in public and private spheres.
	To reduce the vulnerability of refugee women through prevention and response activities regarding SGBV (sexual and gender base violence). It includes protection and provision of care and rehabilitation assistance.
	To enhance protection of vulnerable women and children through their capacity building and to work on their emotional health through psychotherapy and counseling. And to create awareness about their legal and civil rights in the country of asylum.
	To profile and quantify the target group to make an effort in rehabilitating vulnerable refugees into society as independent and confident human beings.
	To provide legal advice, assistance and general information 0n repatriation to Afghans refugees through the ALAC lawyers’ team.

Services at SCAC

Social Counseling

Psychosocial Counseling

Basic Education Assistance

Health Care Preventive, curative)

Subsistence Allowance

Shelter Home

Humanitarian Assistance in specific cases on an exceptional basis

Net Working and referral System

Skill development program

Psycho-social Counseling

Social counseling comprises of psychosocial & economic support of refugees. The process of social counseling includes

	Registration
	Initial and periodic Assessment
	Psycho social counseling
	Home Visits (SA assessment, Claim Verification)
	Subsistence Allowance

Basic Education assistance

It includes

	100% Primary Education Assistance in form of admission fee, tuition fee, transportation charges, books and uniform.
	The program identifies and assists them for working and unaccompanied minors in getting basic education.
	Proper follow up and monitoring is essential part of this component to ensure good quality education

Health care

The component of health care is comprised of medical services, health education and psych-social counseling. SACH-SCAC provides:

OPD Services

Referral to different Govt. and private hospitals, lab investigations, vaccinations, mother and child health care (MCH), psychiatric consultation

Special Needs e.g. speech therapy, provision of artificial limb, treatment of behavior disorders especially minors)

Reproductive Health services

STIs (sexually transmitted Infections)

Rehabilitation for substance abuse

Health Education includes

Safe motherhood

Post natal care

Importance of breast feeding

EPI vaccination

Reproductive Health care

Management of sexual abuse cases

Facilitation in major surgical procedures

STIs especially HIV/Aids

SGBV (Sexual and gender based violence)

Subsistence Allowance (S.A)
Subsistence allowance is provided to vulnerable Non-Afghan refugees.

Skill development Program:

The skill development Program has two components. One of the two is Skill development training. It is provided to reduce the dependency of non- Afghan refugees on S.A. and to make them self-reliant. The available skill courses are as follow:

Mobile repairing
Cooking
Beautician
Electrician
Computer
Language
Plumber
Auto mechanic
Tailoring
Candle making
Pot making
Porcelain work
Embroidery

The second component is Micro entrepreneurship development Training for non-Afghan refugees who are interested in starting a small enterprise. After this training, eligible refugees are provided grants. SCAC also provides them support in developing linkages with local markets.
Shelter Services
SCAC provides shelter for security cases. Shelter service ensures safe place for living with a full package of rehabilitation services including

	Psychosocial counseling
	Psychotherapy
	Health care
	Physiotherapy
	Legal advice and assistance

Humanitarian Assistance for extremely vulnerable individuals on exceptional basis
SCAC provides humanitarian assistance to Afghans and non-Afghans in terms of extension of legal aid, emergency health care and referral to other organizations offering shelter services.

Networking and referral System:
SACH-SCAC has developed a strong networking and referral system with NGOs, lNGOs and Govt. institutions to facilitate refugees for addressing their issues.

Legal Assistance

Advice and legal Aid Center (ALAC) is working in Rawalpindi region since 2002. It provides legal assistance to registered Afghan nationals temporarily residing in Pakistan. Non-Afghans refugees are also assisted under this component since 2008. It uses different tools for identifying and addressing the issues and problems of the Afghans i.e. through issue specific Community Workshops, Theater for Development, Police Sensitization Workshops, legal camps and outreach visits etc.
To address these issues and problems SACH-ALAC is providing the following services; Legal aid and assistance to the Afghan refugees
Legal education about the refugee rights
Awareness regarding Country of Origin Information (COI) and repatriation associated issues
Sensitization of the Afghan Communities
Issues specific workshops and theatre for development
Networking with relevant actors i.e. Law enforcement agencies, Governmental organizations (GOs.) NGOs, INGOs etc.