Mental Health and Motherhood: Laying the Foundation for a Healthy Start
Every mother deserves a healthy start, but for millions of women around the world, pregnancy and early motherhood are overshadowed by depression. Up to one…
Category Archives: Maternal Mental Health
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Why Does Mental Health in Africa Matter?
by Rasa Dawson, Chief Development and Communications Officer at StrongMinds Published on the OECD Forum Network’s blog Over the past few years, the impact of…
Harriet’s Story: From Client to Mental Health Facilitator
Before Harriet joined StrongMinds’ therapy group in 2017, her life was filled with pain and difficulty. As a single mother of twins, relying on her…
How Elizabeth transformed her grief into a mission to help others
Elizabeth (47) lives in Lusaka and is among our first cohort of Peer Facilitators in Zambia. When she joined a StrongMinds therapy group in 2019,…
Half a million people in Africa reached through our innovative depression treatment
StrongMinds has reached a new milestone: we have now treated depression in more than 100,000 women and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and changed the lives…
Christina’s Story of Depression Recovery in a Refugee Settlement
Christina lives in a refugee settlement in northeastern Uganda. At 28-years old, she has already endured a lifetime of instability. When her family fled Sudan,…