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Welcome to the Safe Haven Project |
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The European countries are offering a rising contribution, to secure peace and safety, during missions around the world. This effort is vital to the countries receiving this help. And the political effort to offer this contribution is on the rise as well. It has been a challenge to many of the countries, to deploy young men and women to often dangerous missions. And the training to make the personel ready for the endavours has undergone severe developments.
The deployed young people often step out of a safe and secure lifestyle. To travel thousands of kilometers away - working in a country that has little in common with their own country of origin. The contrast is immense!
In the many years in which these deployments have been going on, it has been the experience that the impressions the deployed are going through leave deep scars both physically and mentally. During the period where the deployed work under these –for the european citizens- extreme conditions, values change meaning, and as the pulse rises, during these extreme conditions, many things that has a lot of meaning diminish, and in the end only survival matters. People who live and work under these conditions, be it short or long periods of time, cannot from one moment to the other exchange these new conditions with their original ones during a flight to their country of origin.
The contrasts are too intense!
Experience shows that the transition to the “normal” life at home is extremely difficult. Despite huge backup and offers for psychological treatment etc, there are still too many who return home who endure problems with being home again. There is a need for a transition, physically and mentally.
SAFEHAVEN PROJECT is this transition.
A haven where the deployed “can breathe”, relax and prepare to return home, to calm conditions.
The goal is, that the deployed, together in peace and quietness, get a chance to reflect on what they have gone through without the pressure of someone trying to force it out of them. The professional help must be there but must offer assistance based on specific needs, based on each individual. The transition must be used in hindsight to have experiences worked through and through that have the opportunity to relax and prepare for their homecoming.
It is our belief, that the deployed need calm surroundings, to achieve a peace of mind, to prepare the return to their “old lives”...
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