All TPO projects aim to improve the psychosocial and mental wellbeing of those individuals benefiting from them. Whenever possible, we try as much as we can to deliver our services in an integrated manner. All our interventions target the most vulnerable individuals and their entire households. This ensures that households and surrounding communities are empowered to support themselves and to form a circle of support around individuals in most need. Hence whereas a typical TPO project would support individuals it also places emphasis on building capacity of traditional community structures to participate in awareness raising, helping and follow up support.

The Uganda Program constitutes of projects designed along the following thematic areas;

* Child Protection (orphans and other vulnerable children)
* Mental Health & Psychosocial Support
* Gender Based Violence
* Peaceful co-existence
* Food Security & Livelihoods Support
* Capacity Building & Training in Community Based Psychosocial and Mental Health Care

* Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) & Ecosystems

* HIV & AIDS

There’s a compound in the town of Yumbe, near Uganda’s borders with Congo and the Sudan. This modest compound houses a few huts and a small office building; home and workplace to three TPO social workers, who really should be known as ‘the unsung heroes’ of the West Nile.

TPO extended its Uganda-wide psychosocial program to the West Nile region in 2002 in response to the growing unrest among communities, a result of more than 20 years of rebel activities in the region and the influx of refugees from across the Sudanese border. Beyond the core psychosocial program element, the Yumbe project focuses on peace building and conflict resolution in the local communities, aiding and empowering people to deal with the many issues they face on a daily basis. At the heart of this work are the TPO social workers, and what follows is a typical day in their lives.” Click here for the full case study.