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Outreach to Sisters in Uganda Another outreach to the Ugandan Sisters was the work of a Religious psychologist from St. Luke’s Institute in Silver Spring, MD, who offered a ten-day workshop in January 2008 to the Sisters participating in the counseling program and to thirty-six other Sisters who are engaged in the training of young women religious. Subsequently, she conducted a four-day workshop on similar issues for approximately twenty-eight Ugandan Religious Superiors. Both workshops addressed the issues of fostering healthy and integrated sexuality for Religious. CTPS Outreach to Northern Uganda The AACSS has funded the construction of a counseling center in Lira, a village in war-torn northern Uganda where the rages of war, rape, and poverty permeate people’s lives. This center is an outgrowth of the Counseling Training Program for Sisters (CTPS) in Kisubi Brothers University College, Entebbe. |
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Ugandan Sisters made great efforts to visit each religious convent in the country in order to raise issues and clarify the needs of local Sisters. After numerous planning meetings they offered a national AACSS conference in May 2006. As a response to a fundamental need expressed at the conference, local women religious initiated a Counseling Training Program for Sisters (CTPS) in March 2007. This counseling program will provide training with a focus on HIV and AIDS, with the intent of having sixty trained counselors with a Bachelor’s Degree at the end of a three- year period. The Sisters are offering this program under the auspices of Kisubi Brothers University College, a constituent College of Uganda Martyrs University. An Ugandan Sister is the Director of this program. |
