STORY: ICRC carries out mental health project to help conflict victims in Cameroon
DATELINE: Aug. 19, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:53
LOCATION: Yaounde
CATEGORY: HEALTH

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Gance village in Cameroon's Far North region
2. various of ICRC workers helping displaced women
3. SOUNDBITE (French): EMERANCE VANESSA MBIA, ICRC psychologist

STORYLINE:

A support team set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is helping conflict victims in Cameroon's Far North region.

Since 2014, a wide area of the region has suffered from fightings between the terrorist group Boko Haram and government forces.

People in the region have suffered all kinds of losses and many of them are immersed in great pain.

The ICRC project aims to help them recover and carry on with their life. 

SOUNDBITE (French): EMERANCE VANESSA MBIA, ICRC psychologist
"In view of the suffering these people have experienced, as well as in their communities, ICRC has set up an assistance program to bring together the families of missing persons in several groups.
At the beginning, we would do an assessment to see the mental health of the person, and after eight sessions, another assessment would be done to see if there is any change, and in most cases, there is change."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Yaounde.
(XHTV)