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Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Learning our way to impact! 🏅🏅
Once each year we meet all our partners for 3 days with one shared purpose: to learn together. This year we celebrate our partners who participated in collaborative learning for lasting impact.
#DisabilityInclusion #LearningTogether
ALT Anthony of CBM Global presents learning on Crisis modifiers for increased resilience and sustainability of projects during crises. He is standing in a workshop, addressing participants, some of them visible on the right handside, and projected information is in the background.
ALT Project participants sat in a U-shaped arrangement during the learning event, some are seen with laptops in front of them, others appear to be sharing a light moment and smiling.
ALT Eugene from BNBR Kenya stands in front of the room, his presentation projected behind him, and participants listening and taking notes. The projected content reads "What does success from our work look like?", and has quotes from community members appearing in the slide.
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Climate change is not just a planetary crisis, it is a mental health crisis hitting informal settlements hardest. @BasicNeeds_KE @Wanavijiji_sdi & TabasamuCafe are turning youth from victims into resilient solution providers through community-led psychosocial first aid training.
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Hearing, "I've been there and I understand," provides comfort to those struggling in silence. Voices of those who have walked the path, change the mental health conversation. This is why @BasicNeeds_KE @CBM_Global_KE put lived experience at the forefront of mental health advocacy
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Excellent point @BasicNeeds_KE . Lived experiences provide invaluable, unique insights to mental health engagements. Fantastic partnering with this shared perspective that places these powerful voices at the center of our joint work. #CommunityMentalHealth #InclusiveMentalHeath
Hearing, "I've been there and I understand," provides comfort to those struggling in silence. Voices of those who have walked the path, change the mental health conversation. This is why @BasicNeeds_KE @CBM_Global_KE put lived experience at the forefront of mental health advocacy
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Suicide Prevention is an everyday commitment, not just a single calendar date. Mental health struggles don't pause when the awareness day ends. Let's therefore checking in with our relatives, friends and colleagues because one conversation can save a life. #StarttheConversation
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
It may be your neighbor.. It may be your quiet coworker.. It may be your outgoing friend.. The reality is that you never know who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide. Therefore, make an effort to check in with them and ask how they are doing. #Worldsuicideawarenessday2026
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Access to mental health care should not depend on where you live, what you earn, or whether services are available in your community.
We must increase investment in mental health, expand community-based services, and integrate mental health into all levels of healthcare to build a system where everyone can access timely and quality care.
Read the policy brief on overcoming barriers to access mental health services in Kenya and discover the actions you can take to improve access to mental health services: shorturl.at/5Dz2X
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
As we edge towards marking #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, check out this very candid conversation on Youth Suicide, the Gap Between Distress and Support, bringing perspectives from Kenya, Iceland, and the UK.
Full episode on Mind the Gap Podcast on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=z4NCvF_z…
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
When mental health is not consistently integrated into routine healthcare, opportunities for early detection, intervention, and timely care are missed. With 1 in 4 outpatients experiencing mental health conditions and 40% of inpatients experiencing mental health conditions, integration at the primary care level is essential.
We need routine mental health screening and management at the primary care level to ensure no one is left behind.
#mentalhealthintegration
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
In many Kenyan communities, mental health conditions are often misunderstood as spiritual attacks, a lack of willpower, or character flaws, among others. @BasicNeeds_KE @CBM_Global_KE and @DOHKilifi are collaborating to erradicate these deeply rooted beliefs through training CHPs
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
People with lived experience of mental health conditions are experts in their own journeys, and mlcan meaningfully lead in programmes that challenge such myths and beliefs in our communities. Fantastic work @BasicNeeds_KE & @DOHKilifi. It is wonderful partnering on this. 🙌🙌
In many Kenyan communities, mental health conditions are often misunderstood as spiritual attacks, a lack of willpower, or character flaws, among others. @BasicNeeds_KE @CBM_Global_KE and @DOHKilifi are collaborating to erradicate these deeply rooted beliefs through training CHPs
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Mental health services only make a difference when people can access them. With approximately 85% of Kenyans unable to access care, strengthening our systems must mean making support available, affordable and closer to communities when they need it.
Read the policy brief on overcoming barriers to access mental health services in Kenya and discover the actions you can take to improve access to mental health care: shorturl.at/5Dz2X
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
SAVE THE DATE. Come join our team @BasicNeeds_KE, Nairobi City County and other stakeholders in mental health to commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day 2026.
The theme is "Changing the Narrative on Suicide", accompanied by the official call to action: "Start the Conversation"
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
73 community members from Sachangwan and Kaptich in Nakuru County are attesting to improved wellbeing courtesy of monthly mental health outreach services they are receiving through a collaboration by @BasicNeeds_KE @NakuruCountyGov supported by @SegalFoundation
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Our team @BasicNeeds_KE will be joining Nairobi City County and other stakeholders in mental health to commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day 2026.
This years theme is "Changing the Narrative on Suicide", accompanied by the official call to action: "Start the Conversation"
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Imagine knowing you need help, knowing where to find it, but still being unable to get there because you cannot afford the transport fee.
For many Kenyans seeking mental health support, the cost of care extends beyond the consultation room. Transport, medication, and inadequate insurance coverage can turn getting help into a financial decision, forcing people to delay care or go without it altogether.
Access to mental health care should not depend on how much someone can afford. We need financing systems that make mental health services affordable, accessible, and adequately covered.
#AccessToCare
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Reminder!!
Who pays for mental health in Kenya, and how does financing affect access to care?
Join our X-Chat tonight as we unpack the funding gaps and explore what must change for more equitable mental health care.
📅 13 Aug 2026
🕗 8 PM EAT
#MentalHealthKenya
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
The question is not only how many people need mental health care, but whether our systems are prepared to meet that need.
It is time to scale up our response and ensure that growing demand is matched by accessible, quality mental health services.
#AccessToCare
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Strengthening Partnerships for Mental Health
MHNC-NNAK paid a courtesy visit to Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya to advance collaboration on mental wellbeing & community mental health programmes.
We appreciate BNBR’s support for our 27th Conference & look forward to more joint impact. #MentalHealthKE #NNAK
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya retweeted
Journalists from 6 Kenyan counties joined a series of mental health trainings by @MediaCouncilK and @BasicNeeds_KE to prioritize personal wellbeing while eliminating stigma in reporting. The goal: uphold dignity, minimize harm and maximize accountability in mental health coverage
