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 individuals from seeking help.
Building the next generation
Equipping young people with the knowledge and confidence to speak up on mental health and organize within their own communities. We capacitate youth to identify early support mechanisms.
Centering lived experience
Creating spaces where women can speak openly about mental health, understand their rights, and advocate for themselves and one another, particularly in rural communities facing severe rights violations.
Turning voices into change
Working with policymakers, institutions, and partners to strengthen mental health protections and advance human rights at a national level in Sierra Leone.
Health and dignity
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.
