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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
Outside the Kigali Referral Mental Health Centre in Kinyinya, Gasabo District. All photos by Craish Bahizi
Health

PHOTOS: A closer look at Kigali’s new mental health centre

Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Bible Society Rwanda launched the 'Young Samaritan', a new program to provide faith-based and data-driven interventions centered around the specific needs of the youth. Photo Courtesy
Health

New initiative to help young people overcome depression, peer pressure

Monday, January 01, 2024
Participants during the ongoing battle against gender-based violence (GBV). Photo by Craish Bahizi
Rwanda

The pervasive reality of gender- based violence in Rwanda, globally

Thursday, November 30, 2023
Chantal Mudahogora is an experienced psychotherapist at Solid Minds, a mental health clinic in Kigali. She has also worked with female victims of domestic violence, and people suffering fro 1
Health

Therapist Mudahogora on why Rwandans should be more open about mental health

Monday, October 09, 2023