00:0035 year old Raheem Songolo, a Congolese national
00:05has lived in Malawi's Zalika refugee camp for the past eight years.
00:10A violent conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:15I left my relatives behind and I'm always affected by the stress when I think about
00:20them.
00:21Whenever the stress becomes too much, I experience seizures because of myself.
00:25I hear some of the thoughts and the situation in the camp.
00:30Hemmer says she has only been able to cope with her trauma after accessing free
00:35psychosocial support services offered at the camp
00:40These services have reduced my stress and I have
00:45learned many things that I did not know before
00:50The refugee-led organization
00:55Art for Hope reaches at least 3,000 people each month with science
01:00Psychosocial support and intervention helping many refugees rebuild their lives
01:05Many or 90% of the community or the population are suffering
01:10Because they have been involved through overwhelming situations
01:13Such as wars, violence
01:15And they continue to have camp life
01:17Which is making their lives too challenging
01:20And now with this we try to offer them a tool
01:23To help them find peace
01:25And also try to produce peace
01:28So that we can live in a peaceful
01:30existence
01:31Zanika Refugee Camp is home to more than 60,000 refugees
01:35Many of whom say psychosocial services are essential to the
01:40They are survival
01:41In the end, the camp life is very hard
01:43In the end, the camp life is very hard
01:45So if you don't have something
01:46Like the job that you can be occupied with
01:49So
01:50You may have trauma
01:51Because of
01:52Because of thinking
01:53Because of
01:55because of speaking so many things.
02:00Inoua Advocacy says psychosocial support helps refugees
02:05cope with the trauma of displacement.
02:08If your mentor...
02:10Health is not okay.
02:11You cannot do things to advance yourself.
02:15Because often then you'll sit down and feel sorry for yourself
02:19and wonder.
02:20If things are going to ever go well for yourself,
02:22for you or your family.
02:25Health community efforts are doing all they can.
02:28They need sustained funding.
02:30And programs that can at least begin to heal
02:32the deep physical and mental...
02:35forms of conflict.
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