As part of its 2024 Call for Proposals, the Europamundo Foundation (FEM) has allocated €40,000 to the We Are Like You program, aimed at supporting women with mental illness and associated substance abuse. This program is being carried out in Monrovia by the Sisters Hospitallers...
Yesterday, January 28, the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Liberia, Dr. Jakob Haselhuber, visited the Benedict Menni Health Centre and its Mental Health Unit in Monrovia. The visit marked the successful completion of a renovation project funded by the German Embassy, which...
Estefanía Ibáñez Martínez is a Spanish psychiatrist who spent the last quarter of 2024 working as a volunteer in the Mental Health Unit of the Saint Benedict Menni Centre in Monrovia. She studied medicine at the University of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), and subsequently trained...
The Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center has been one of the organizations participating in the recent Review and Validation Workshop on Mental Health Regulations in Liberia, organized by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with The Carter Center. This event, held from December 19...
As part of the celebration of World Mental Health Day, the team at the Benedict Menni Mental Health Center in Monrovia, Liberia, scheduled a week long program. This year's theme emphasised on ''Prioritising mental health at workplaces'', the team took it upon themselves to sensitise...
On October 16, a container with different stuff donated by different companies and institutions arrived at the port of Monrovia. The container had left Spain on August 9, sponsored by EKI Foundation, an organization that provides solidarity financing and technical training for the installation of...
The Aita Menni Hospital yesterday hosted a meeting of the team supporting the Mental Health Unit of the Benedict Menni Center in Monrovia (Liberia), with which the Hospital works closely. The meeting was attended by the managing director of Aita Menni Sisters Hospitallers, Mikel Tellaeche, head...
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...
