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 In
2004, GOAL received a request from DAP to come and lead a 12-step
support group training in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Heroin drug trafficking
from Afghanistan passes through Tajikistan en route to other Central
Asian countries. Tajik men find menial labor employment in Russia and
bring back the HIV virus, thus infecting women and children. AIDS is
approaching epidemic levels. Recovery groups as well as drug
rehabilitation clinics are desperately needed.
 Dr.
Meshach Chujor, a Nigerian missionary, began the Drug & AIDS Program
(DAP) program in 2000. The overall aim of the project is to slow the
rate of increase of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in the community
through awareness education, training and rehabilitation. DAP has
conducted more than 2,000 Drug Awareness & AIDS to date as well as
education seminars for more than 50,000 participants and DAP has a
facility to begin a drug rehabilitation center and has plans to expand
into other areas around Tajikistan.
In 2004, Dr. Webb and Katja Savina, director of the outpatient Zebra
Clinic in Moscow and consultant for OPORA training, led a weeklong
training in Duhanbe. GOAL also supported an Opora staff member to lead a
Codependence training in 2005. In January, 2005, a GOAL team will assist
the fledgling AA, NA, and Al-Anon groups started in 2004.
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