When Network for Africa set out to provide mental health support in northern Uganda, we had a specific goal: we wanted to train local people to give trauma counselling to survivors of the devastating civil war. It quickly became clear that no matter how successful we were in helping people to manage their trauma, we also needed to reach […]

Trying to quantify emotions can be a tricky business, like nailing an omelette to a wall. How do you measure happiness or gloom? Doctors ask us to choose a number between one and ten to express our physical pain. But how do you calculate fear or anxiety? For this reason, Network for Africa is always […]

In the global north, amputation is usually a result of accidents or diabetes. But in Sierra Leone, rebel soldiers used it as a weapon of terror, punishing the civilian population during the country’s civil war. It left an estimated 27,000 people (out of a population of 5.1 million) as amputees. Even twenty years later, victims […]