Taking Action: Take-aways from Mental Health Awareness Month
Schizophrenia is one of the most commonly stigmatized mental health disorders.
Parents should watch for things like emotional reactivity, moodiness, despair, heightened anxiety, and melancholy in their children’s growth.
Barriers to raising awareness of mental illness...
HEALTH: What caring for people with autism means
People with ASD often have problems with social communication and interaction.
Caring for them needs patience and understanding.
The community needs sensitization to understand the condition and its misconceptions.
April is World Autism Month, with the conversation...
Time to sensitize students on mental health
Mental health conversations in Kenyan schools remain essential.
Parents, the government, the community and individuals have a share in escalating the conversation.
Round Table Wellness Foundation is among the initiatives concerned about mental health among...
Liberating African girl child through equitable education
Improving girls’ and young women’s access to education in Africa has been on the mainstream development agenda for decades because this investment has a great potential to cut back poverty in the continent.
Empowering the...
Menyenya alumni fete former principal, starts kitty for needy students
For many years, Job Ong’ombe sat at the helm of Menyenya High School and made it the school of choice in Gusiiland and beyond.
The exemplary results of his time remain edged in the memories...