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Braveheart Project
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Conflict has displaced millions across Nigeria, families torn from their homes, dreams, and peace of mind. Beneath the surface lies an unseen crisis: three out of every five displaced persons live with a mental health disorder, and many turn to substance use to escape their pain

The BraveHeart Project

The Brave Heart project leverages an innovative task-shifting approach. It is an AI-powered, community-led and digitally-driven project that takes mental health information and services to the last mile – IDP camps and underserved communities.

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community members educated on mental health across Africa
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Project Features

We leverage an innovative task-shifting approach. It is an AI-powered, community-led and digitally-driven project that takes mental health information and services to the last mile – IDP camps and underserved communities.

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AI-Powered

At the heart of our innovation is an AI conversational model — a digital companion designed to listen, comfort, and guide. It extends therapy beyond physical spaces, offering empathetic, on-demand support in 3 different local languages (Hausa, Yoruba, and Pidgin) to young people in displaced communities. Through technology, we’re reimagining what connection and healing can look like — turning AI into a bridge for mental wellness and hope.

AI Therapy Assistant

Our Friendship Tent

The Friendship Tent is the world’s flagship safe space to promote the mental health of young people living in internally displaced persons camps. Community members trained by mental health experts conduct regular therapy sessions for young people in the Friendship Tent — re-creating the safe place in their minds and world.

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Task-Shifting

9 out of every 10 mental illness go untreated due to lack of psychiatrist in low and middle-income countries like Nigeria. We are training community members to give mental health interventions to young internally displaced persons, We are empowering ordinary people to care for others

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Digitally Driven

As a flagship tech-driven and community-led mental health solution to internally displaced persons in Northern Nigeria, we leverage on digital technology via SimbiHealth Mobile application to ensure that the mental health information is available to everyone, everywhere.

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Community Led

We believe healing starts within. That’s why Brave Heart is community-led—driven by trained local champions who create safe spaces, lead conversations, and inspire hope in their own communities.

Community Led

Key Mental Issues We Focus On

Depression

Subsbtance abuse disorder

anxiety disorder

post-traumatic disorder (ptsd)

Transforming Lives, Changing Communities. One BraveHeart At a Time

Transformative stories of the BraveHeart Project from the field

The Awakening: One BraveHeart at a Time

Across Sierra Leone, a silent crisis is stealing the dreams of a generation. Young people trapped in the grip of Kush — a deadly synthetic drug — are losing more than just time; they’re losing themselves.

The Brave Heart Project is standing in the gap.Leveraging our AI-powered and community-led approach, we are helping youth rediscover purpose and rebuild their lives. This is more than a fight against a drug — it’s a movement to reclaim futures, restore dignity, and remind every young person that recovery is possible.

SRHIN Launches Solar-Powered Friendship Tents in IDP Camps in Northern Nigeria

Slum and Rural Health Initiative Network (SRHIN) launched a first-of-its-kind Friendship Tent® at the New Kuchingoro IDP camp, Abuja, North-Central Nigeria which was featured by a leading media agency in Nigeria –SilverBird TV viewed by millions across Africa

The Friendship Tent is a solar-powered mental health center for young people living in migrant camps and underserved communities

Brave Heart: Standing Against Kush in Sierra Leone

A new chapter of courage is unfolding. In this video, Brave Heart follows the journey of individuals and entire communities rising above personal battles to heal, connect, and rebuild.

Witness the power of hope, empathy, and community-driven change as Bravehearts everywhere step forward to reclaim their stories

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Here are ways you can help

Join Us

Join the Braveheart Project and be part of a mission to promote the mental and physical health of internally displaced persons (IDPs)

Partner with SRHIN

SRHIN is seeking partnerships with organizations and individuals who share our vision for promoting the mental and physical health of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs)

Donate

Your donation to the BraveHeart PROJECT can help us provide training and resources to IDPs, and make a real difference in their lives.