Bereavement companionship programme sets a model in helping people cope with grief
The HinduA Bereavement Companionship Programme aimed at helping communities and neighbourhoods build the capacity to support members during times of grief is gaining popularity across the globe under the patronage of the famed Institute of Palliative Medicine in Kozhikode. The 15-hour foundation course conducted in partnership with the Australia-based Death Literacy Institute Mission and Mission Better Tomorrow, the global arm of Nanma Foundation supported by UNICEF, has so far won around 300 learners across the globe of which 150 persons are from Kerala. “Our aim is not to create a pool of trained professionals who can provide bereavement counselling services, but to prepare a group of community members to be good companions to a bereaved friend, colleague, or family member,” says Suresh Kumar, Director, World Health Organisation’s Collaborating Centre for Community Participation in Palliative Care and Long Term Care, IPM.<SU><SU>Dr. The project team members led by IPM faculty member Saif Mohammed say the circumstances behind and features of bereavement have changed a lot with the surfacing of new challenges and the emergence of some of the previously hidden societal changes.
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