Amaudo Itumbauzo
Project Partner: The Methodist Church
Project Number: 1518
Amaudo Itumbauzo is a mental health programme situated in a remote area of Abia State in south east Nigeria. It is owned by the Methodist Church of Nigeria.
Residential rehabilitation is provided to vagrant psychotics picked up from the streets in the regional towns. These patients are receiving medical treatment and vocational training in a community setting. The rehabilitation generally takes two years and those rehabilitated are helped to re-integrate into their home environment. Usually around fifty patients are involved at any particular time.
In addition, there is a community psychiatric programme that collaborates with the Ministry of Health to provide community based mental health services in three Federal States. A human rights component is also included.
Recently, a community based rehabilitation (CBR) programme, concentrating on the rehabilitation of disabled children, has been established.
CBM supports medicine for the centre, assistance for reinsertion of rehabilitated patients, and in occasionally providing vehicles to assist the community psychiatric programme.