LAPS EXTEND SERVICES TO NEW SLUM COMMUNITY
LAPS has extended services to a new project community of St. Paul Bridge. St. Paul Bridge is a slum community situated on Bushrod Island within the suburb of Monrovia. Politically, the community is within the electoral district of “District 16” of Montserrado County – Liberia.
The need to extend to the St. Paul Bridge community was informed by:
1. Independent external evaluation results of the positive impacts realized from the psychosocial service oriented project implemented by LAPS at the slum community of Samuel K. Doe situated near the Freeport of Monrovia and,
2. The documented existing gaps and needs for a psychosocial project of similar nature within the St. Paul Bridge community and its environs.
LAPS along with the funder of the project(Dignity Danish Institute Against Torture), also sees the project as an opportunity to test and replicate the Psychosocial model used at Doe community. The project is designed and will be implemented on the theme: “Sustaining and expanding community-based protection, prevention and psychosocial intervention by linking MHPSS, livelihood and violence prevention in urban slums of Monrovia”
The generated knowledge of the project implementation experiences will be documented for the purposes of:
· Improving overall practices of community led interventions,
· Fund raising and or, advocacy and,
· Highlighting the importance and efficacy of psychosocial service provisions in general and LAPS’ services in particular.
Targeted beneficiaries of the project includes survivors of torture and organized violence, traumatized returned migrants and survivors of GBV.