Reflection Meeting Between Civil society Actors on Mental Health

On the 9th of May, representatives from ALCONDOMs Cameroun, ELLE Cameroon and Working For Our Wellbeing Cameroon met for a focus group talk on Mental Health.
The examination of some key realities on ground was the centre of the meeting and after discussions it was arrived at a conclusion that the community needed more psychosocial workers as majority of persons are deprived from this services or available few were expensive.

These these organisations went on to looked on the role played by community actors (Activist) and how they at times are deprived from getting the mental health they need and it was clear that Activist too do have breakdowns and need to open up to someone.

They went on to identify the rising need for the question of/on mental health to be brought on the table and while creating national emergency respond. The reason why this proposition about a national emergency response was because the government has a vital role to play as far as this is concern.

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Expanding on the matter, the existence of punitive laws and the continuous rise in Homophobia, a lot of community members turn to suffer a lot as they can not primarily open up to anyone for fear of being judged.

As the reflection went on, recommendations where also brought on board that will go a long way to particularly tackle and address the problems identify during this meeting.