WHO ISN'T
WHO ISN'T
Me I Am Mental Trust
Me I Am Mental Trust is a Charitable Trust registered in Kenya with the following objectives:
1. To spread public awareness of mental health care and preventive mental health care.
2. To do all such other matters and things and to take all such other actions as may appear to the trustees to be in the best interest and to the best advantage of the public but only consistently with and in furtherance of the objects set out herein in and in accordance with and in furtherance of the objects set out here in and in accordance with the provisions of this presents PROVIDED ALWAYS and also without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing objects that the help to be given under any of the foregoing heads wherever the case admits and in either way of pecuniary payments or services or articles or things or the supply or distribution goods, foods clothes or medicines either directly or through agents or in any manner which the Trustees may consider desirable.
3. To support the public at large on various mental health issues including facilitation of access to mental health medical professionals, institutions, and hospitals; and provision of financial and psycho-social support for those in need of or undergoing treatment for mental health illness.
4. To organize conferences, seminars, workshops for doctors, medical support staff and public at large for purpose of dissemination of information, knowledge about developments relating to mental health, best practices etc. with the aim of growing the country’s capacity for better management of mental health challenges.
WE, the people, hold the following to be true:
To this extent, “ME, I AM MENTAL.” Proudly.
As you should be. As should your sister, brother, mother, father, friend, colleague, neighbour…
Let us unpack this.
It is good science that what we think and feel affects our bodies. And what we do to or with our bodies, affects what we feel and think. This cyclical play of factors and forces is what makes you yourself.
On closer look, we will notice that the mind does not sit separately or remotely in a special chamber somewhere in our body, but is distributed throughout the body through a complex, powerful, wonderful network of consciousness using the nervous and endocrine systems.
In other words, the mind is alive in each of our body’s cells. Every thought and feeling takes place at the cellular level. To understand the body, you understand the mind. To understand the mind, you understand the body. To understand both is to understand life.
There is growing global interest in mental health. This could be because we are generally becoming more aware of our mental health; and/or because we are feeling increasingly desperate regarding our mental health.
It is well known that the number of reported cases of mental illness has risen sharply in the recent past. Economic and political stresses, technology, social and cultural unrest etc. are some of the factors giving rise to this situation, which if not checked, will result in dire consequences for all of us, individually and collectively.
is both a restatement of the most fundamental aspect of our identity as human beings, as well as a call to arms to all those willing join the legions of the brave men and women who have dared to see the mental health situation for what it is and have set out to do something about it. Through this project we will:
