Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative

Victor Ugo

Founder

Mission

We are the only non-profit charitable organisation that focuses on mental health issues, for young people in Nigeria, who need accurate information and support in an era of increasing social difficulties. Our vision is a world where young people in Nigeria can flourish because their mental health is valued by themselves and their community; have access to high quality rights based services as needed and are able to live to their full potential.

Category

Children and Youth

Additional Information

MANI is proud to be the largest youth Mental Health network in West Africa with over 1,500 active youth volunteers across 18 Chapters in 18 out of 36 states in Nigeria. MANI is also the largest provider of crisis support services in Nigeria, with direct support given to over 25,000 persons (>80% between the ages of 10 and 25) in 3 years of setting up the service. MANI was recognised by The Elders as one of their 100 ‘Sparks of hope’ across the world and received a Nelson Mandela-Graca Machel Innovation Award in 2017, in the best civil society organization category. MANI is proud of the difference it makes, as exemplified by the kind of testimonial we get from our service users: “MANI played a huge role in my survival,” “I had someone to talk to when I was isolated,” “We got talking and I felt so much better.” Offline, MANI runs conversation cafes across 18 states, educating more than a thousand young people every month on mental health and mental health conditions; and have trained over 5,000 employees and over 30,000 students, parents and teachers. Online, MANI carries out sustained efforts to improve the Mental Health literacy levels of millions of people through their active social media pages - with a combined following of over 100,000 across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and with a reach, for example, of over 350 million in the past 6 months, all done using very innovative ways to get people involved in conversations, learn and receive support as needed.

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