Sister Amandine Kontogome has spent the last 6 months at Pipeline, between January and July, living her apostolic experience, deepening community life and putting hospitality into practice. From Burkina Faso, she joined the Sisters Hospitallers in October, 2008. "Giving my life to God to love and...
On July 12, we received a visit of representatives from Médecins Sans Frontieres - Abidjan (Ivory Coast), who have been in Monrovia for a week to evaluate the mental health facilities operated by their Liberian counterparts. MSF collaborates with the Benedict Menni Health Center as referral...
The Mental Health Unit of the Benedict Menni Health Center of Monrovia recently welcomed a group of representatives of the IECD-Liberia and Mercy Corps, interested in knowing who we are and the work we do, and in exploring possible avenues of future collaboration. IECD is an...
The work of the Mental Health Unit of the Benedict Menni Center in Monrovia not only comprises care and rehabilitation of women with mental illness: we also often carry out actions aimed at raising public awareness about mental health and wellbeing, as a way of...
On May 8, a delegation from the Benedict Menni Center had the opportunity to visit three of the centers where Médecins Sans Frontières provides mental health services in Monrovia. The delegation was formed by the Head of Programs of the Benedict Menni Center and CEO of...
It is with great joy that we share with you that the Chapter Assembly, encouraged by the Holy Spirit, has elected the new Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Sr Idília Maria Moreira G. Carneiro. Sr Idília...
On Thursday, May 9, the Minister of Health of Liberia, Dr. Louise M. Kpoto, and the Director of its Mental Health Unit, Dr. Moses Ziah II, among other officials of the Ministry of Health, received a delegation from the Benedict Menni Center, formed by the...
On May 8, a team from the Mental Health Unit of the Benedict Menni Center held a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection of the Government of Liberia, Josephine Greaves, with whom they established the basis for a possible collaboration...
Recently we introduced you to Cris, a volunteer nurse who was helping us during January and February in the Mental Health Unit of the Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia. During the month of February, Cris coincided with another volunteer, Enrique Gonzalez, a psychologist who...
Cristina Bressel is a nurse from Madrid (Spain) who volunteered in our Mental Health Unit in January and February. She got her degree in Nursery in the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid and spiecialized in mental health nursery in the Hospital Universitario Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, where...
