I’m running the London Marathon in April 2026 for Network for Africa – a challenge I’m both excited and slightly terrified to take on! But behind the miles and training runs is something far more meaningful: the opportunity to support communities in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. Last November, I visited Sierra Leone – […]

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 The LRA had just withdrawn over the border to Sudan, and the conflict felt very real and too […]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 […]