A workshop to teach about trauma healing is underway in Maridi County to assist the families of victims of the fuel tanker explosion, which killed and wounded hundreds of people in Mambe Payam in September.

The three-day workshop is organized by the Women's Union of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, Maridi Diocese.

Pastor Yunis Nayima of ECS Maridi Diocese says the workshop is especially for the families who lost their loved ones in the fuel explosion in Mambe to teach and heal them from trauma.

“We organized this workshop so that we can help those who have a problem, a problem that we had here in Maridi where people were burned. Some people of ours here lost their whole families,” she said.

“Maybe a man lost his wife, his kids and he remains alone. This will harm this man a lot. Maybe woman has lost her husband and she remains alone with the children,” Yunis added.

Nayima further says the affected families are very many and not all are included in this current workshop, so after this one they will organize another workshop for the rest. The workshop yesterday brings together 40 participants, mainly widows and widowers, at ECS guest house.

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