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The BraveHeart Project
There are about 3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency and insecurity in Nigeria. These are people who have been forced to leave their families, homes and jobs, among others. Hence, at least 3 out of 5 refugees (IDPs) suffer from at least one mental illness or the other according to UNHCR.
SRHIN's Innovation to Tackle this Issue
The Brave Heart project leverages an innovative task-shifting approach. It is a community-led and digitally-driven project that takes mental health information and services to the last mile – IDP camps and underserved communities.
Project Features
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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 that have been trained by mental health experts conduct regular mental health therapy sessions for young people in the Friendship Tent. Hence, 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 leverage the immense power of the community to destigmatize and deliver mental health solutions by listening to them and co-creation of programs with members of the vulnerable communities that we serve. A big win for sustainability!
Key Mental Issues We Focus On
Depression
Subsbtance abuse disorder
anxiety disorder
post-traumatic disorder (ptsd)
Our Impact
Impact on Direct Participants
83% completed the mental health sessions
77% participants demonstrated a meaningful improvement (50% increase) in well-being
69.7% participants demonstrated a meaningful improvement in Mental health knowledge
69% participants demonstrated a clinical improvement in Mental health
76% completed digital skills and entrepreneurship training
Impact on Intermediaries
70% of intermediaries demonstrated a meaningful improvement in knowledge after expert-led training
50% of intermediaries were women (promoting gender equity)
60 intermediaries trained by mental health experts for 6 weeks
Impact on the Wider Community
2 Friendship Tents (solar-powered mental health centers) that still serve the communities to date
Over 1200 community members educated on mental health in Northern Nigeria
Monthly mental health day policy was successfully implemented
Explore Our data, media files and program briefs
Our Funders
We appreciate our funders and partners for the trust and opportunity to give hope to the under-served communities
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
