World Mental Health Day is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma.
My background includes having training/accreditations in life coaching, counselling and psy
The Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, WHO and partners are responding to an Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak since 1 August 2018, with the epicentre being Mangina town in Mabalako Health Zone, North Kivu Provi
“I have been part of very effective peer support programmes and enjoyed my peer support role. In this programme [different organisation] it’s not working.
My first interaction with someone who performed the duties of a family liaison was in 1999.
The Syrian woman inside the tent at Al Zataari camp in northern Jordan was essentially alone. She held her two-year-old daughter in her arms but her husband, her parents, three sons and most of family were gone.
‘How can I help?’ I asked the po-faced Detective Inspector. ‘You can start’, she said, ‘with the names, addresses and dates of birth of everyone in your agency’.
In August 2017, violence erupted in Rakhine State in Myanmar, targeting the Rohingya people, a stateless Muslim minority. Almost a million people fled to Bangladesh and are now living in temporary shelters around Cox’s Bazar.
Over a decade of working in emergency relief in nine countries left me discouraged, hopeless and cynical. I had seen the effects of war, managed crises and experienced abuses of power.