Yoga Helps Heal War Wounds In Rwanda
Dec 26th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Depression, Featured, YogaYoga is reaching the survivors of the Rwandan genocide and helping to heal their depression and physical pain.
“Yoga gives these women back the sense that they still have untapped reserves of life and health and youth in them – that they are not old and maimed and sick at all, but still very much alive,” says Deirdre Summerbell, a yoga teacher and founder of the organisation Project Air.
Since its launch in 2007, thousands of women who were raped during the genocide in 1994, many of whom were consequently infected by HIV/AIDS, have been reached with yoga classes given by Project Air.
In partnership with local gynaecologic health centres that perform fistula operations for survivors of rape, the organisation is now planning to expand into the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman or girl.
This is the first time that yoga has been included as a programmed mental health service of a medical NGO in Africa.
Check out the whole interview at IPSNews.net.
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