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Community Care
The “Socio-Cultural Container Project”
2015
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2016

Funded by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany

A Federal Foreign Office-funded project (2013–2021) using converted shipping containers as mobile sociocultural centres in ten Afghan provinces, hosting dialogues, support groups, and VBC® online counseling to strengthen social cohesion and civil society. The containers served as hubs for exchange, they provided a safe space for people of all walks of life to express themselves and to listen to each other expressing different opinions. Each container had access to online counseling supporting people on an individual level.

18,000
people reached in 2015
10
provinces involved
85,000
people reached in 2016

The project faced the same challenges that confront the Afghan population as a result of decades of armed conflict as well as multiple cultural contacts with Indian, Iranian, Pakistani, Russian and Western cultures and the impact of globalisation, which has set in motion a renegotiation of social roles and responsibilities. It also focused on promoting individual psychosocial skills as a basis for social participation and integration and it included sociocultural dialogues, events covering socially relevant issues as well as cultural and social identity issues, support groups as well as VBC® psychosocial online counseling through our online platform www.ipso-ecare.com that was established in 2013.

We reached over 18,000 people through the project in 2015 and more than 85,000 people in 2016, with 3,600 people also participating in socio-cultural dialogues in 2015 and another 2,450 in 2016.

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