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Social worker Samantha Korkoyah, Benedict Mossen from The Carter Center, Sor Florence Adevor, Superior of Sisters Hospitallers in Monrovia, and Timothy Dalieh, Unit coordinator.

09 May The Carter Center visits the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center

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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

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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.”

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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”

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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.”

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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

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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

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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.

06 Aug Marta, We Are Like You psychiatrist: “Thanks to a human and empathic treatment, these women can be rehabilitated and have the life they deserve”

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Marta Menéndez, We Are Like You project psychiatrist at the St. Benedict Menni Mental Health Center in Monrovia, Liberia, is featured in an interview in the August issue of Sisters Hospitallers´newsletter.

28 Jun The College of Physicians of Gipuzkoa awards We Are Like You with one of its cooperation grants

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The Foundation of the Colllege of Physicians of Gipuzkoa has awarded We Are Like You with one of its 2018 Cooperation Grants, worth EUR 2,000.

27 Dec Happy Christmas for some tough personal stories

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The patients of the "Maria Josefa Recio Step Down Unit" at the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center celebrated Christmas with a special dinner and gift giving –some of them did not remember to ever have had one–. These are happy and joyful moments, but behind their smiles and gestures of enjoyment remain hidden personal stories that talk about the exclusion and marginalization suffered by mental ill people in Liberia and other African countries.