National Coordinating Coalition » Lifeline Counseling Service

General Information

Brief History

Strategic Direction

Strengths & Specialities

Success Story

HIV/AIDS Services

Community & Social Services

Community Impact

Overview
The main focus is directed at ensuring that people are free from the fear of HIV-related stigma and discrimination and that people living with or vulnerable to HIV infection are supported to become self reliant in a non-discriminatory, safe and comfortable physical and emotional environment. In fact, it has been the mission of Lifeline Counselling Services since its commencement on October 22, 1996 to “work towards reducing the psycho-social impact of HIV for persons living with or affected by AIDS through education, counselling, care and support, training and networking with public and private sector organizations.”

Years of Service
Twenty (20) Years.

Geographic Reach/Location
Region 4
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Partners
Neigbouring schools, Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Education, Food For The Poor, Help & Shelter, other NGOs.

Over the past twenty (20) years Lifeline Counseling Services has been providing quality home-based care services to people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) and orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) living in region 4. The organization has been networking closely with the HIV Care and Treatment sites, diverse public Ministries, and other sister non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to achieve the organisation’s goals and objectives.

Core Focus
HIV/AIDS.

Aspirations for the Future
Lifeline Counseling Service’s management and staff wish to continue working in region 4 providing quality home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) and counselling on other issues.

Skills & Strengths
The organisation has in its employment a registered nurse and two (2) Social Workers.

Speciality of Activities
Home-based care, HIV/AIDS counselling, and general counselling.

An HIV positive young male, who acquired the virus due to mother to child transmission, was enrolled in Lifeline Counselling Service’s orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) programme and attended the after school classes for many years. He subsequently graduated from secondary school and is now gainfully employed due to the support he received and continues to receive from LCS staff. In particular, he benefitted from weekly psychosiocal, economic, and educational support to guide him to reach his full potential. Assistance was also provided for his job application writing. Today, this young man still occasionally visits the LCS office.

Beneficiaries of Services
HIV care and treatment sites, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) and orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs).

General counselling.

Beneficiaries of Services
Neighbouring schools and general public.

For the past three (3) years, Lifeline Counselling Service has been providing:

Quality home-based care to over four hundred and twenty-one (421) people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) and two hundred and ninety-four (294) orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs).

Delivering text and story books to one (1) nursery, four (4) primary and four (4) secondary schools in Georgetown.

Conducting eighty-one (81) after school sessions for OVCs.

Provision of general counselling for over twenty (20) persons.

Provision of counselling services to neighbouring schools.

Member Contact Information | Phone: 592-231-7289/226-4214/226-4225 Email: lifeline.gy@gmail.com Address: 332 East Street, Georgetown