We Are Like You https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/ Un proyecto solidario de salud mental para la gente de Liberia Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:27:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 Enrique González, volunteer psychologist: “Daily living with patients, staff and sisters has been very enriching”. https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/enrique-gonzalez-volunteer-psychologist-daily-living-with-patients-staff-and-sisters-has-been-very-enriching/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:27:15 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31004 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...

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]]> Meet Cris, a volunteer nurse that stayed with us for 2 months https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/cristina-bressel/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:45:38 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30976 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...

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]]> Aita Menni Hospital receives the visit of Hikvision’s top international managers https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/aita-menni-hospital-receives-the-visit-of-hikvisions-top-international-managers/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:48:59 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30963 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...

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]]> Ondoan, Hikvision and Hommax donate video surveillance system https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/ondoan-hikvision-and-hommax-donate-video-surveillance-system/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:17:55 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30941 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...

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]]> Sr Clotilde: “The war destroyed our centre but like the Phoenix we rose again” https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/sor-clotilde-la-guerra-en-liberia-redujo-nuestro-centro-a-cenizas-pero-como-el-ave-fenix-resurgimos-y-continuamos-ayudando-a-los-mas-necesitados/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:14:18 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30743 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...

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]]> Our coordinator invited to help draft National Treatment Protocol for Substance Use and Addiction https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/program-coordinator-invited-to-help-draft-national-treatment-protocol-for-substance-use-and-addiction/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:41:12 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30600 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...

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]]> Farewell to four employees https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/farewell-to-four-employees/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:28:51 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30606 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...

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]]> Our condolences to The Carter Center on the passing of its founder, Rosalynn Carter https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/our-condolences-to-the-carter-center-on-the-passing-of-its-founder-rosalynn-carter/ Tue, 26 Dec 2023 14:22:14 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30603 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...

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]]> Médecins Sans Frontières will refer patients to our Mental Health Unit https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/medecins-sans-frontieres-will-refer-patients-to-our-mental-health-unit/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:20:35 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30524 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...

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]]> Mental Health Day https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/mental-health-day/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 13:36:30 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=30416 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...

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