09 May Changes in the care team lead: prestigious Dr. Benjamin Harris joins WALY
Since last January, a 100%-african takes care of the patients at the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center as psychatrist Marta Menendez and nurse Cecilia Alvarez went back to Spain after a year working at the Sisters Hospitallers´ facility in Monrovia. The leader of the care...
09 May The Carter Center visits the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center
The Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center welcomed recently Benedict Dossen, Mental Health Program Lead at The Carter Center, to see up close our Maria Josefa Recio Unit and the Sisters Hospitallers´ Health Center. During the visit, Mr. Dossen and our Director of Health Programs, Mikel...
26 Apr The dirt road to the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center, paved
Finally, the dirt Pipeline road that leads to the Saint benedict Menni Health Center has been covered with tarmac. After many petitions to the authorities made by our representatives in every chance we had, the dirt road full of potholes and bumps got paved. This is a...
09 Mar “I´d tell other women to come to the Step Down Unit, so they can heal.”
L.G. is a 45-year-old woman with paranoid schizophrenia. She was one of our first admitted patients. In her relapses, she usually believes that someone wants to chase and kill her, so she runs away from the family home to live in the streets.
15 Jan “Life has made me more confident of myself since I have been treated here”
B.Y. is a 50-year-old woman. She was one of our first admitted patients. On her last monthly follow up, she arrived on time, well groomed and dressed, with her continuous smile and her hair tied. She is one of the many Liberians who still suffer the consequences of the war and the Ebola outbreak, and she is also affected by Schizophrenia.15 Jan “I would tell other women to keep courage and take their medication, to ignore those who are stigmatising them.”
M. K. is a 25-year-old woman. She lives in the chaotic centre of Monrovia, with her mother and her 8-year-old son. She had been living on the streets since she left her family house, at the age of 13, where she got involved with prostitution to survive. Living in the ghetto and the slums made her vulnerable to drugs and STD.
25 Oct Charitable family day in San Sebastian for We Are Like You and Caritas
More than seven hundred people met on October 20 at the Eskibel School in order to enjoy a family day and help people who need it most.
05 Oct The Gipuzkoa College of Physicians gives We Are Like You its 2,000 EUR grant
The Cooperation Office of the Gipuzkoa College of Physicians has handed over the Cooperation Grant, worth 2,000 EUR, granted to We Are Like You, the health project for women with mental illness and intellectual disability in Monrovia, Liberia.