Kara Counselling and Training Trust

Positive and fully alive

PROFILE

Kara Counselling and Training Trust is a non-governmental, non-denominational, charitable organisation. It started as a project in 1989 and became an independent registered trust in Zambia in January, 1991.

The main activities of the trust are:

• Provision of voluntary and confidential HIV/AIDS counselling and testing services
• Provision of general counselling services to individuals and families
• Provision of support and care for persons living with HIV
• Training of HIV positive persons in community AIDS awareness, positive living and peer education skills
• Provision of skills training for income generation activities for persons living with HIV
• Provision of training courses in counselling and homebased care for health practitioners
• Provision of care for AIDS orphans and street kids

CLIENT CAPACITY

• Training of counsellors and homebased care providers - 560 persons per year
• Voluntary counselling and testing - 200 self referred clients per month
• Training of HIV positive persons - 120 persons per year
• Community AIDS education outreach - 100 organisations visited per month
• General counselling - 28 clients per month
• AIDS orphans and street kids - 30 girls per year

STAFF ESTABLISHMENT

• 60 employees

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