It was 2006 when Network for Africa first dipped its toe in the challenging waters of northern Uganda. Patongo was the last place to be occupied by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a paranoid and vengeful militia. The LRA had just withdrawn over the border to Sudan, and the conflict felt very real and too […]

Your support has made many things possible this year. In Burundi, we trained more people in trauma-counselling; in Rwanda, elderly genocide survivors have joined peer counselling groups; in Sierra Leone students are getting involved in sharing mental health knowledge with their peers, and in Uganda more people with mental health issues and their carers have […]

Growing up in Britain’s industrial heartland in the 1970s, you couldn’t miss how important manufacturing was to post-war economic success. Whether they were making cars or textiles or cutlery, people felt part of something bigger. The global economy has changed dramatically, with the service economy and retail replacing manufacturing in many places. But the importance […]