We Are Like You https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/ Un proyecto solidario de salud mental para la gente de Liberia Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:59:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.21 The ambassador of Germany in Liberia visits our centre https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/german-ambassador-liberia/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:58:01 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31490 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...

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]]> Estefanía Ibáñez, volunteer psychiatrist: “Liberian culture has great values that we in the West have lost”. https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/estefania-ibanez-volunteer-psychiatrist/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:19:53 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31481 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...

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]]> Helping review and validate mental health regulations in Liberia https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/helping-review-and-validate-mental-health-regulations-in-liberia/ Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:09:51 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31446 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...

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]]> New Government in Sisters Hospitallers https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/new-government-in-sisters-hospitallers/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:02:28 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31417 Our Delegation of England has lived a time of prayer and discernment during the I Assembly, held from December 7-12 at our St. Augustine’s Center in Addlestone, Surrey. As a result of this process, a new Government was constituted: Delegation Superior: Sr María Lourdes Sanz...

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]]> World Mental Health Day: raising awareness of mental health at work https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/world-mental-health-day-raising-awareness-of-mental-health-at-work/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:53:10 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31367 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...

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]]> A container with donated materials arrives at our center. https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/a-container-with-donated-materials-arrives-at-our-center/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:10:44 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31328 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...

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]]> Liberia Mental Health Unit Support Team Meeting https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/liberia-mental-health-unit-support-team-meeting/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:31:21 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31270 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,...

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]]> We bid farewell to Sister Amandine, after her apostolic experience in Monrovia. https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/sister-amandine-bid-farewell/ Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:32:18 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31230 Sister Amandine Kontogome has spent the last 6 months at Pipeline, between January and July, living her apostolic experience, deepening community life and putting hospitality into practice. From Burkina Faso, she joined the Sisters Hospitallers in October, 2008. “Giving my life to God to love...

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]]> Representatives of Médecins Sans Frontieres – Ivory Coast visit our facility https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/representatives-of-medecins-sans-frontieres-visit-our-facility/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:36:39 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31195 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...

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]]> We welcome IECD-LIberia and Mercy Corps to our center https://www.wearelikeyou.org/en/we-welcome-iecd-liberia-and-mercy-corps-to-our-center/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:26:10 +0000 https://www.wearelikeyou.org/?p=31185 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...

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