ACHAP spreads into broader Africa
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Speaking during the awards ceremony on Friday, Jerome Mafeni, ACHAP chief executive said the organisation is introducing new strategy in which it will have multiple funders as the main funders are revising their funding priorities.
He said ACHAP is confronting a time of many significant global changes in the financial, health and development arenas. “This is also a time when our main funders are reviewing and revising their funding priorities leading to cut-backs or total cessation of funding,” said Mafeni.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...