Gender-Based Violence Training
Around the world, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is an epidemic public health challenge. UN Women estimates that 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lives. In Uganda, the estimate rises to at least 50%. Although GBV also affects boys and men, it disproportionately targets girls and women. […]
Our Innovative Approach
For many years, THRIVE’s Executive Director, Mick Hirsch, has been struggling with “traditional” approaches to mental health care for refugees and other survivors of conflict. A graduate of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Mick was taught to think “outside the box” – to challenge Western methods, and instead listen to the unique cultural, traditional and […]
5 to THRIVE Model for Trauma Recovery!
This week, we will introduce THRIVE’s original “5 to THRIVE” Model for Trauma Recovery! What does it mean to THRIVE? We believe that meaningful existence is more than mere survival. We believe the invisible wounds of psychological trauma deserve healing. And, we believe that functionality and productivity can only flourish when an individual and her community […]
Working Together
THRIVE believes the best way to support communities is to go directly to them, asking villagers what sort of help they need and partnering with them in a cooperative agreement to bring demonstrable change to their quality of life. Over the years, we have learned the power of micro-savings – not only do villagers learn […]
Counseling and Psycho-Social Support
THRIVE Gulu was founded as an organization that would provide excellence in trauma counseling to survivors of one of the worst atrocities of the modern era – the destruction of life and liberty perpetrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Counseling and Psycho-Social Support remains a pillar of our identity. Our counselors are among […]
The Empowerment Group
This week, we will highlight our unique approach to making survivors into THRIVERS! THRIVE’s signature intervention is the “Empowerment Group.” Each group, containing 25 – 100 individuals from some of the most marginalized communities in Uganda, serves as a doorway through which we offer micro-finance programming and business skills education, while at the same time […]
Meet Laura: Communications Manager
“I always assumed there wasn’t anything I could do. I mean, what could I do really do to help all those people suffering in Africa?” Laura reflects on questions many of us might ask ourselves – indeed, the twin horrors of war and poverty are too much to comprehend. Yet, Laura took the plunge! She decided to stretch […]
Meet Anita: US Operations Manager
Anita jokes, “I love making spreadsheets! There’s something so satisfying about taking massive amounts of paperwork and reworking it into nice, neat columns!” No doubt, it is hard to imagine someone better suited to serve as THRIVE’s US Operations Manager. But, all joking aside, Anita avers that her role at THRIVE helps her feel like […]
Meet Mick: President & Executive Director
Mick can hardly control his enthusiasm for THRIVE: “This is the best job in the world! I get to work with a small team of outstanding professionals both in the United States and Uganda. Together, we think critically and creatively about ever-new strategies to support individuals who, for far too long, have been relegated to the […]
