Advocacy for Mental Health & Human Rights - Sierra Leone
We are working to make Sierra Leone a place where mental health is understood, protected, and treated with dignity through community education, direct advocacy, and policy change.
Dignity · Equality · Advocacy
Why we exist
Across Sierra Leone, people living with mental health conditions especially youth and adolescents continue to face stigma, misunderstanding, and exclusion. Too often, their voices are missing from the decisions that affect their lives.
AMHHR-SL works to change that by connecting community education, direct advocacy, and policy engagement to create a society where mental health is understood, dignity is protected, and every person can be heard.
Learn more about AMHHR→What we do
We bring communities, advocates, and decision-makers into the same conversation thereby turning awareness into action and action into stronger protection.
Changing the conversation
Running workshops and outreach in schools, communities, churches, and other spaces to challenge stigma and replace misinformation with understanding. We break barriers that prevent indivituals from seeking help and supporting others.
Building the next generation of voices
Equipping young people with the knowledge and confidence to speak up on mental health and organize within their own communities. We capacitate young people with coping strategies and ways on how to identfy early support mechanisms. We also empower them to make informed decisions about their mental health and general wellbeing.
Centering lived experience
Creating spaces where women can speak openly about mental health, understand their rights, and advocate for themselves and one another. We work to ensure that women and girls have access to the resources and support they need to protect their mental health and wellbeing. We are try to work with women in rural communities where there are significant threat to their mental health and violation of their human rights.
Turning voices into change
Working with policymakers, institutions, and partners to strengthen mental health protections and advance human rights in Sierra Leone.
Health, dignity, and stigma reduction
Supporting HIV education, referrals to testing and prevention services, and stigma reduction — because HIV status, like mental health, should never be a source of shame.
AMHHR — working with communities in Sierra Leone
Community-led
The people closest to a problem are often the people best placed to help solve it. That is why our work begins with communities.
We listen to experiences, create space for honest conversations, and help communities turn their concerns into advocacy that can influence systems and policy.
Explore our programs→What guides us
Shared belief
Mental health is a human right.
Community first
Local voices should shape local solutions.
Lasting change
Awareness must lead to action and protection.
Be part of the change
Volunteer, partner with us, support our programs, or simply help start a conversation about mental health and human rights.
