Collectively we initiate various awareness and advocacy activities, by addressing local and global issues related to mental health and human rights, that are important to us.

Reducing Stigma through Sharing our Recovery Stories

Mental health conditions remains highly stigmatised, and remains the primary reason why persons avoid seeking treatment. By sharing our stories, we hope to help break down these stigmas, and remind others that recovery is possible. The following are some of ours. 

Transforming the World Together

Transforming the World Together is our talk show on our YouTube Channel. Episodes focus on a range of topics related to mental health and human rights from lived experience perspectives with our very own Deputy CEO, Claudia Sartor, as the host of the show.

​We have produced 4 episodes which are published on our YouTube channel - the episode topics include:

• ​​Psychosocial Disability
• Mental Health and NCDs​

• ​Education in Times of COVID
• Recovery in Mental Health

Our Global Voice

Through the "Our Global Voice" project, we embarked on a quest to seek lived experience perspectives from India, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and the United States, on the impact of receiving a diagnosis of a mental health condition.

This project was supported by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute
in cooperation with the Public Health Program of the Open Society Foundations.

View the full video interviews, with:

• Eleni Misganaw (Ethiopia)
• Hina Mobar (India)
• Oryx Cohen (United States)
• Claire Waithira Kyalo (Kenya)​​​​

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• Surabhi Katyal (India)
• Melissa Talal (United States)
• Richa Bakhshy (India)
• ​Claudia Sartor (South Africa)
• ​Chantelle Booysen (South Africa)

Webinars

We host monthly webinars on a range of topics that relate to mental health and wellbeing. Our Regional members often identify specific topics that they wish to discuss and host their own webinars.