HEALTH
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Our friends in Kolahun have survived profound trauma and loss. They confront needs every day that we often take for granted, including access to basic health care and mental health support. In order to transition from a community living in these dire conditions to one that thrives, RHL, founded by medical professionals, provides basic healthcare, collaborates with the local hospital, and is launching a first of its kind mental health program in Liberia, evidence-based group therapy for women. |
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SERVICES RHL PROVIDES:
- Routine home visits by a Registered Nurse to monitor children’s physical and social well-being
- Interpersonal Group Therapy for women suffering from major depressive disorders
- Emergency support to the Ministry of Health’s Kolahun District Hospital
- Coordination, training and support of peer-to-peer health counselors
- District-wide COVID prevention efforts
- Direct cash transfers to female caregivers during the dry season for nutritional support
- Provision of supplemental food during the rainy season
OUR NEWEST INITIATIVE:
Integrating Women’s Empowerment, Economic Development & Mental Health
A debilitating mental health crisis persists in a context of extreme poverty, where more than 40% of Liberians suffer from post-traumatic stress and/or a major depressive disorder.
RESTORE HOPE: LIBERIA implements a combined mental health and women’s economic and social empowerment project to address this problem. Interpersonal Group Therapy (IPT), an evidence-based mental health intervention, is integrated into the Women’s Weaving Cooperative (WWC) and Kolahun Crescendo (KC). This integrated approach provides a sustainable and scalable program for on-going mental health support while advancing women’s economic and social empowerment.
RESTORE HOPE: LIBERIA implements a combined mental health and women’s economic and social empowerment project to address this problem. Interpersonal Group Therapy (IPT), an evidence-based mental health intervention, is integrated into the Women’s Weaving Cooperative (WWC) and Kolahun Crescendo (KC). This integrated approach provides a sustainable and scalable program for on-going mental health support while advancing women’s economic and social empowerment.
Business skills and microfinance training, savings and loan workshops, and cooperative governance workshops will be held annually to ensure the participants are gaining the necessary skills to grow and lead a successful business and to manage their personal finances.
The goals of the project are (1) to improve women and girls’ mental health and wellbeing; (2) to strengthen women’s economic and social empowerment; (3) to support the WWC to become a self-sustaining, expanding cooperative in which the domains of women’s economic empowerment are woven into the cooperative’s culture; (4) to support the Kolahun Crescendo, which addresses several necessary domains of women’s empowerment through art (photo) therapy and storytelling.
The goals of the project are (1) to improve women and girls’ mental health and wellbeing; (2) to strengthen women’s economic and social empowerment; (3) to support the WWC to become a self-sustaining, expanding cooperative in which the domains of women’s economic empowerment are woven into the cooperative’s culture; (4) to support the Kolahun Crescendo, which addresses several necessary domains of women’s empowerment through art (photo) therapy and storytelling.