(M1) FAMILY AND FRIENDS – INFORMATION EVENING

The coming home experience of aid workers is an often underestimated stressful and lonely time of a deployment and one that the aid worker and their friends and family are not always prepared for.

Despite the abundant love and enthusiastic welcomes from family and friends, it is not uncommon for those returning home from the field to feel quite alienated in their intimate relationships and old social routines.

For some, this may be a relatively short-lived phenomenon, whilst for others, the new values and perspectives gained in the course of humanitarian work will have a more profound and longer lasting impact on personal relationships and life style choices.

The psychosocial adjustment of aid workers, particularly re-entry adjustment, can be greatly enhanced by the support of family and friends. However, often family and friends do not have the benefit of insight into the complexities that arise over the period of deployment abroad.

The Antares Foundation invites friends and family members of those volunteering or being deployed in the humanitarian sector, particularly for the first time, to attend an Information Evening on the subject.

WHEN?

Wednesday, 22nd April, 2009 7-9pm

Monday, 29th June, 2009, 7-9 pm

Monday, 7th September, 2009, 7-9 pm

Wednesday, 9th December, 7-9pm

COST: NO CHARGE

Please register your interest in attending by emailing your NAME & MOBILE NUMBER to: antares@antaresfoundation.org.au

Light refreshments will be served.

VENUE: Antares Foundation Inc. (Australia). Level 1, 19-21 Argyle Place South, Carlton.