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Students during an awareness campaign on drug abuse and mental health in schools at Kicukiro stadium on May 13. File
Education

Educators push for enhanced school psychological support

Wednesday, December 18, 2024
A panel discussion at the National Dialogue on November 21. The meeting brought together experts, policymakers, and practitioners in mental health to explore strategies for advancing mental health care in Rwanda.

Resilience-oriented therapy, a promising approach to addressing mental health

Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Mental health work focuses on counselling women. The treatment included ROT intervention, delivered in a group setting through 24 therapy sessions over three months, followed by six weeks of follow-up. Photo Courtesy
Featured

New group-based intervention effective in addressing mental health, strengthening psychological resilience

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Resilience-oriented therapy enhances individual psychological resilience within a group setting.
Featured

How resilience-oriented therapy is transforming mental health, psychosocial support in Rwanda

Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Red Cross volunteers help a trauma victim during a commemoration event at Kicukiro-Nyanza Genocide Memorial in 2019. Sam Ngendahimana

Transgenerational trauma: How the past continues to affect future generations

Sunday, October 27, 2024
According to the 2023 State of Mental Health at Work survey by the Mental Health Hub, a mental health clinic based in Rwanda, more than 80 per cent of employees in East Africa experience moderate to extreme stress.
Health

How best can employers reduce stress in the workplace?

Thursday, October 10, 2024
Children playing during an event at KCC. Experts warn that without immediate intervention, childhood obesity could escalate into a national public health crisis. Craish Bahizi
Health

Urban lifestyles fuel rising childhood obesity in Rwanda

Saturday, September 21, 2024
Investigators inspect a scene of suicide incident in Kayonza District in 2020. Rwanda joined the global community on September 10 to commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day.
Health

Rwanda steps up mental health efforts to combat suicide

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Junior Rumaga, a renowned figure in Rwanda’s growing poetry scene.
Art

How poetry serves as a healing tool for mental issues

Thursday, June 13, 2024
Participants visit a mini exhibition where a mental health specialist showcasing some of tools that the society has been using while dealing with a mental health patient before. Courtesy
Health

Mental health: Research project seeks to address illness in Rwandan schools

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
A volunteer comforts a victim during a past commemoration event at Murambi Genocide Memorial in Nyamagabe District. The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi caused severe psychological and emotional wounds, leading to depression, anxiety, and social phobia, among survivors. File photo
Kwibuka

Kwibuka: Coping with mental effects as a Genocide survivor

Monday, April 15, 2024
Red Cross volunteers help a trauma victim during a commemoration event at Kicukiro-Nyanza Genocide Memorial in 2019. Sam Ngendahimana
Kwibuka

Genocide: Experts weigh in on transgenerational trauma

Sunday, April 07, 2024