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Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month is a time to recognize a critical but often overlooked issue: the mental well-being of men. Globally, men die from…

Each year, June 20 marks World Refugee Day, a day when people around the world come together to honor those who have been forced to…

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…

The Katwe area of Kampala, Uganda is often referred to as a slum. Home to 35,000 people, the neighborhood sits on a rail line and…

Community-based mental health care is for everyone everywhere. -Vincent Mujune, Country Director, StrongMinds Uganda StrongMinds is so excited to be in New York this week,…

StrongMinds is deeply alarmed and saddened by the dismantling of USAID and the termination of U.S. foreign assistance funding. While USAID accounts for less than…

After three years of operations, we closed StrongMinds America (SMA) at the end of 2024. Continued iterations of our group therapy model in the US(including…

In December, heavy rains swept across Uganda, triggering widespread flooding and catastrophic landslides. The mountainous Elgon region along the Kenya-Uganda border was hard-hit. A devastating…

In 2024, StrongMinds overwhelmingly exceeded its goals, treating 426,642 clients for depression—a 78% increase over 2023. This brings our total impact to nearly 900,000 people…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 Kampala, Uganda – StrongMinds, a global non-profit democratizing access to mental healthcare, has been named one of the world’s…