Project HOPE team led by its President /CEO visited Gede Foundation on 23rd May,2022, to discuss the current partnership engagement between the two organizations. The partnership is on training frontline Healthcare Workers in the Federal Capital Territory on Mental Health and Resilience.

The training is meant to provide the needed skills and knowledge to support Health Workers to cope with the stress and mental health problems associated with their daily tasks as they care for patients, especially from COVID-19 complications. The training in ongoing in all the 6 Area Councils in Abuja.

Project HOPE has been responding to the COVID-19 outbreak since late January 2020, through distribution of PPEs, capacity building of healthcare workers around the world and deploying medical volunteers helping health systems ensure continuity of services.

Africa CDC and Project HOPE acknowledges the role of healthcare workers at the frontline of the fight against the virus and recognizes the heavy burden threatening their physical and mental wellbeing.

Gede is coordinating the training programme and is offering the needed intervention that will support the delivery of healthcare services in health facilities. It is expected that this programme will be expanded to more target audiences as it is noted by the WHO that ‘there is no health without mental health’