Programs of SACH
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Services of SACH:
The programs of SACH focus around the issue of violence and torture, the beneficiaries of SACH are marginalized and vulnerable groups of people or refugees or displaced people, children and women at a grassroots level or with government and civil society at the national level. It has used a multi-pronged approach and this is reflected in the diversity of the programme and the tools used for the promotion of survivors and human rights.
Rehabilitation Services for target beneficiaries:
The main aim of the SACH is to work for the rehabilitation of the victims of different traumatic human rights abuses such as torture, violence, refugee’s issues, and child sexual abuse, forced marriages without any discrimination of race, culture, cast, religion, sex or age.
For the reintegration and resettlement of these victims into the society, team of dedicated professionals comprising of doctors, physiotherapist, psychologist, lawyers, counselors, provide them equality care in a professional manner. Along with the physical health of these victims, emotional well being and self empowerment of these survivors is also emphasized so that they can live an independent normal life, which previously has been denied to them. For the economic empowerment, micro entrepreneurship development training and financial assistance is offered to the victims if needed.
For the rehabilitation of victims, SACH team has two approached i-e.
- Center based service program and
- Reaching out to the survivors in the communities by arranging camps
Medical Services:
Through outreach efforts medical camps are organized in the targeted areas to provide the medical services to victims. The survivors are provided with the following services:
- Medical counseling
- Hospitalization
- Assistance for livelihood
Psychological Services:
All victims have psychological effects regardless of whether though they have been subjected to either physical or sexual abuse. Because these survivors have experienced unusual trauma from the hands of another human being, this has a particular effect on their personality and identity, which is the main purpose of the perpetrators. Usually these victims have low self-esteem, mistrust, features of anxiety, depression, behavioral problems and emotional instability and exhibit abnormal reactions to normal and neutral circumstances and objects.
After initial assessment, special focus was on the emotional stability and trust building; counseling sessions were done on regular basis with emphasis on problem identification and finding the solution to the identified problem.
Physiotherapy:
Physiotherapy is an important component of rehabilitation program while dealing with victims of human right abuses. Stress as a result of trauma experience and injuries sustained are best managed by Physiotherapy along with the medicines. Victims suffer from stress and strain in various groups of muscles, tendons, bones etc. This gives raise to pain dysfunction, disability.
Social support:
Social treatment is initiated along with physical and mental health, involving the whole family if possible. Following social services are provided to the victims and his/her family depending on the individual cases circumstances:
- Accommodation / housing
- Arrangements for shelter, food, travel, basic health facilities and security needs
- Establishment contacts with the authorities and organizations that can support victims or their families
- Involving families in sessions to identify the intra-familial problems arising out of torture and trying it find solutions to these problems with the involvement of the family.
- Assisting in legal matters, both legal counseling and legal aid.
Legal Assistance:
Since the establishment of Sach, it is providing legal awareness and legal aid services to the targeted beneficiaries. Sach started legal awareness campaigns in different remote areas and in its response took initiative of legal aid services to these disadvantage segments of the society. A penal of legal experts and probono lawyers was established at the district and appellate courts level to provide legal aid to different marginalized segments of communities.
SACH is still dealing with legal cases and got an excellent background after completing successfully legal cases by providing them with legal aid and assistance including family, civil and criminal cases of Pakistani clients, afghan and non afghan refugees, dual nationals, torture victims and children of sexual abuse.
Training conducted by SACH
SACH-Struggle for Change has conducted different trainings with the following professionals from different fields. The purposes to conduct these trainings were to raise awareness on the issue of torture and its effects.
- Parliamentarians
- Lawyers
- Doctors
- Media
- Police officials
Police Trainings:
The police is an important stakeholder in every programme of SACH whether it is to eliminate all forms of traumatic human rights abuses or provide protection to victims and survivors. Over years SACH’s credibility with the police was established and the police repeatedly expressed and viewed SACH as a reliable organization which could deliver. Thus, a stage was reached when the mutual trust was strengthened, the case handling could be assisted and a referral system and network was developed.
SACH started structured and formal training through its different projects as of 1994. Furthermore, based on SACH’s support the Human Rights cell was strengthened. Additionally, high level police officials called on SACH’s expertise and assistance to deal with sensitive cases. SACH always promptly responded to their request and acted positively.
Thus, the police have a crucial role in bringing change. They can perform only if their knowledge base is enhanced. The key stone of human rights education of the police is that the education shall not only aim at producing trained professional workers but inculcating in them a sense of higher purpose. Human rights education is aimed at providing the police with abilities to accomplish and produce societal changes. This training has been acknowledged and has been seen as a way to empower police to increase their capacity of understanding and addressing the issue of torture with a right based approach. The aim is to have a more sensitized police force. This sensitivity can be achieved partly through large-scale educational programs and dissemination of knowledge and skills.
Training with police officials in the area of human rights and behavior change is an on going program of SACH and these trainings are conducted in Rawalpindi region, Islamabad capital territory, Haripur region, Azad Kashmir region. SACH under this training program is focusing on the junior officers who are directly interacting with victims and accused persons. They closely interact with the public on a daily basis and at all times. These young officers are more open to learning and positive change unlike the old police officials whose mind set is based on old practices. The newly recruits are more prone to bringing positive changes
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