Today, on International Women’s Day, we salute African women who have overcome the challenges they faced growing up, and continue to face. Despite this, or maybe because of it, they play a crucial role in lending a helping hand to people in need. Some of those inspiring women work at Network for Africa’s projects. Florence, Counsellor, Port […]
Pennies From Heaven
I’ll get straight to the point. A generous fan of Network for Africa will match donations up to a total of £15,000/$21,000. Please consider supporting us by clicking here. Why support us? Network for Africa may be small, but we achieve a great deal with modest resources because we don’t waste money on a fancy […]
Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends
Something remarkable has been happening at our counselling sessions in Uganda: people who attend are spontaneously forming their own self-help groups. When they meet at our sessions, they find they have much in common, and they are creating a whole new network of people who support each other, sharing experiences and discussing future plans. Aid […]
Exploding The Myths Of What Lies Beneath
“There is something underneath” is a comment heard too often in Sierra Leone, when people encounter someone with epilepsy or mental health issues or an Ebola survivor. What they mean is that there must be a demon or witch causing the affliction; a curse rather than a medical condition. Not that the rest of the […]
One Good Thing About 2020
Most people reading this will be glad to consign 2020 to the “deleted items” box, or, for those of you who now live by Zoom, to push the “leave meeting” icon on this year. But there has been one silver lining: a heightened appreciation of the problems caused by depression, stress and trauma. People across […]
A History Of Orphans
Ever since the novels Vanity Fair (1847) and Jane Eyre (1848), the orphan has been a standard fixture in literature. From Oliver Twist to Harry Potter, via Tom Sawyer and David Copperfield, readers have followed the difficult lives of vulnerable young people as they are forced to make their way in the world. Over the […]
Strong As A Lion – Sierra Leone
Covid-19 is a new experience for most of us, but for Sierra Leone, it is a recurring nightmare. First, the small West African nation endured a long, vicious, devastating civil war, in which rebels amputated people’s hands as punishment. Then in 2014 came Ebola. Now, it is Covid-19. It’s hard to get a clear picture […]
A Profile In Courage & Determination
These are challenging times, right across the globe. A suicide help-line in southern California reports that in March it had 21 phone calls, while in April, after a few weeks of lockdown, it had 1,800. Even without a pandemic, our trauma counsellors in northern Uganda cope with difficult circumstances in the aftermath of a devastating […]
Taking A Deep Breath
Most of us have a friend or relative who treats us like a free counselling service: we do our best to be attentive when they want to talk about their problems. Yet, in some cases, it isn’t a two way street. Perhaps they aren’t keen on listening when we want to vent, or they take […]
Back From The Brink
Unless you live in rural Africa, it is hard to grasp just how difficult it is to find affordable medical help when you need it. However, people in the Global North who are without sufficient health insurance may understand how quickly life can spiral out of control when you become unwell. The same applies in […]
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