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...
The Aita Menni Hospital welcomed yesterday several of the top international managers of Hikvision, provider of the video security system that, since 2022, has been operating in the Legal Psychiatry Unit and the Unit of Intellectual Disability with Behavioral Disabilities, and that allows to prevent...
The companies Ondoan, Hikvision and Hommax have donated a video surveillance system worth EUR 4,000 to the Mental Health Unit of the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia. Ondoan —through MCC Telecom— already contributed to the start of the project in 2017 with similar equipment. In...
Sr Clotilde, one of the pioneer Sisters of our mission in Liberia, explains her story in Africa, marked by effort, cooperation, faith, and war "My name is Sr Clotilde de María Elvira, I was born in Madrid in 1934 to a deeply Christian family. I´ve always...
The coordinator of the Mental Health Unit at St. Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia, Ato Kwamena Sagoe, was recently invited to be part of a group of professionals who, in a three-day workshop, drafted and revised the National Protocol for the Treatment of Substance...
During the last days of 2023, as it has been known for some months prior, four employees who have worked tirelessly over the last decade saw their time to return home for retirement. It was a bittersweet moment to see persons whom we have shared professional...
Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States during Jimmy Carter's term of office, passed away in the United States on November 19th. Rosalynn Carter and her husband were the founders of The Carter Center, an international non-profit NGO that works in the field of...
The Mental Health Unit of the Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia will treat Liberian women who suffer or have suffered mental illness or substance use disorders referred by Médecins Sans Frontières. Under a Memorandum of Agreement signed yesterday by Sisters Hospitallers and Médecins Sans Frontières,...
This year's Mental Health Day was celebrated on 10 October under the slogan "Mental health is a universal human right", which emphasised the need for affordable, accessible and quality health care for people suffering from mental illness. To mark the occasion, the Unit organized a week...
Mary's Meals, an international NGO that fights child hunger in 18 underprivileged countries, including Liberia, has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord. Mary's Meals provides meals to nearly 2.5 million children every day, and it does so in schools, which has a...
