Disturbed and alarmed by the
rising incidents of suicides and attempted suicides across the country, the
Aart of Life Foundation, Nigeria's pioneer Grief and Trauma Counselling
Services since 2004, is pleased to announce a programme to provide counselling
to Nigerians needing help.
Aart of Life is providing a toll free counselling hotline that people can call and
unburden themselves in times of distress.
In a statement signed by Chief
TaiwoTaiwo, president of Aart of Life Foundation, the NGO noted that “we are
developing a comprehensive programme to address this specific problem and in
collaboration with our Partners, Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychologists of
the School of Behavioral Sciences of the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital (LASUTH), we are pleased to announce our Aart of Life Counselling
Hotline 0800healing
(08004325464).”
Using the hotline, Aart of Life
will provide counselling and support for those who are suicidal or anyone who
has ever entertained suicidal thoughts; provide trauma counselling for those
who have experienced or witnessed a violent, and/or life changing traumatic
event.
Callers can receive, after the
telephone counselling, one-on-one counselling by our highly skilled and trained
Counsellors at the Aart of Life Foundation offices, 12th Floor, Elephant House,
214, Broad Street, Lagos.
Aart of Lifeis committed to reaching
bereaved and traumatized persons nationwide through telephone counselling, planned
media campaigns to promote and publicize the counselling services, printing of
Information Education and Communication (IEC) materials in the form of leaflets,
handbills and posters, and monitoring and evaluating impact of telephone
counselling programme. It will also submit final reports highlighting
accomplishments, impact, success stories, lessons learnt and challenges faced.
About
Aart of Life
The Aart of Life Foundation is a
not-for-profit that was established in September 2002 by TaiwoTaiwo. Aart, an acronym from the name
AbioyeAronkeTaiwo is inspired by the life of AbioyeAronkeTaiwo, TaiwoTaiwo’s
much loved 24-year-old daughter who died in a car accident on the notorious
SoboArobiodu/ Isaac John intersection of the G.R.A Ikeja, Lagos, on the 19th of
April 2002.
The mission of the Aart of Life
Foundation, in keeping with the values with which this remarkable young lady
lived her short life, is “to promote and advance the virtues of love, kindness,
compassion, charity, beauty, and sensitivity amongst all Nigerians, and
especially amongst the young women of AbioyeAronkeTaiwo’s generation.’
Aart of life is Nigeria's pioneer
Grief and Trauma Counselling Service.
To support the foundation, visit
their website - http://www.aartoflife.org.
Taiwo I. Taiwo (Chief Mrs.)
Chairman Aart of Life Foundation
…living for good, to do good
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