Diocese of London, ALMA & MANNA Lent Appeal

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Since 2017, over a million people living in northern Mozambique have been displaced by a violent insurgency and 4,000 have been killed. This is a population now who are deeply traumatised. Many professionals have said that their need for trauma counselling and support is as great as their need for food, but agencies and organisations do not have funds for this. 

The Anglican Diocese of Nampula has been working with internally displaced people (IDP's) for the last couple of years supporting them with food, education and training via their community development work. So many of the IDP's they work with have experienced great trauma from horrific actions they have seen; family members killed, fleeing in atrocious conditions.

The church there has a vision to widen their community development work and create a trauma support project for IDP's which begins to 'Curar as Memórias’... 'Heal the memories'.