Church leaders trained on HIV/AIDS

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 20: Continuing with the effort in fighting against the menace of HIV & AIDS in Nagaland, Nagaland Development Organization (Development wing of NBCC) in partnership with Legislators Forum on AIDS (LFA) organised a State level in house Training of Trainers (ToT) for all the associations and church leaders under NBCC from November 15 – 17 at AIDA Centre, Don Bosco School Campus, Dimapur. The idea behind organising the programme was to have better in-depth knowledge on various socio-economic issues faced by the church and also by the infected and affected people. One of the findings in the process of the training was the need to impart education/information to all the section of people so that the public is made aware at the vulnerability of the society in which we are living today. The ToT was to seriously signal the start of complete involvement of the churches in addressing the issue for extending the psycho-social support to those who are in need. Since Nagaland is composed of different tribes, the ToT was initiated to train different tribal key church leaders who can, in turn, disseminate information in their own respective association/ churches up to the village level without facing any communication problems. Handouts and other materials were also widely distributed to all the participants for their reference in the field of work. The resource persons of the two-day training were Dr. Molu Jamir, ART Centre Civil Hospital, Dimapur; Dr. Moa Imsong, Senior Counsellor of Dimapur Ao Church; Dr. L Vinito Chishi, LFA Consultant; Ms. Hukatoli, trainer LFA. Altogether 50 participants attended the training programme.