The first time I met Theresa was in March this year. I was visiting Network for Africa’s trauma counselling project in Rwanda, preparing for a more in-depth trip in June. I wanted to see how Network for Africa and its local partners were reaching survivors who remain deeply affected by the 1994 genocide. Back in […]

“The saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it is like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.” Robin Williams. Thankfully, in the five years since the comedian Robin Williams took his own life, there has been more attention paid to mental […]

The answer is epilepsy. Other famous people with the condition include Alexander the Great, Handel, Byron and Gershwin. But that wasn’t much comfort to Peter. Until our community counsellors heard about him, he spent most of his days tied up with rope and locked in his parents’ house in rural Uganda. Peter’s mother has 11 […]