Share your story with the GMHAN community
Your voice and your story are important and can help inspire meaningful change for global mental health. Listen to and share your voice with our community, learn about their projects and engage with members who are sharing their experiences of mental health.
Share your story and perspectives, and gain valuable insights into the mental health initiatives and projects being developed by our community members. Join us today to make your voice heard and to learn from others who are working towards better mental health for all. By sharing your experiences, you can help raise awareness of the mental health challenges that people and communities across the globe face, and provide hope and inspiration to others who may be facing similar issues.
If you would like to share your story with the Global Mental Health Action Network, a community, passionate about improving global mental health, we invite you to complete this form at the end of this page.
We look forward to hearing from you and working together to create a more supportive and inclusive community for all.
Read some of our member stories below.
Apish’s Story
Hi, everyone. My name is Apish Tshetsha co-founder of Waves for Change from Cape town, South Africa.
In South Africa only 4% of South Africa's health budget is committed to mental health. We have a massive treatment gap. In Khayelitsha, a large community with more than one million people, there's only one psychiatric hospital with five mental health nurses
Beto’s Story
Hello, everyone.My name is Beto. I'm 40 years old, since I was 23 I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. So this fact in my life actually drove my purpose to work within mental health. Nowadays, I'm working as an impact venture and ecosystem builder here in Brazil.
So being part of global Mental health Action Network has been an amazing experience and amazing opportunity to connect within other institutions throughout the world.
Margianta’s Story
Hi, I'm Margianta, and I'm from Emancipate, Indonesia. What made me passionate about mental health is actually learning how intersectional it is and actually how it plays a part in social determinants in health in order to add to the wellbeing of young workers, which I'm fighting for in my foundation, Emancipate, Indonesia.
Stephanie’s Story
Hi, I'm Steph, head of Global Impact at Batyr. At Batyr, we run preventative mental health programs in schools, universities and communities for young people by young people.
In Australia, we train young people to learn how to share their lived experience stories in a really safe and impactful way to help others.
So in Australia, I'd say a lot of really good things are happening in the mental health space.
Kyra’s Story
My name is Kyra Ballesteros, and I am the deputy for research and innovation with the volunteer-run, non-government, non-stock, and non-profit civil society organization, Mental Health PH, based in the Philippines.
The recently released Philippine Development Plan 2023-28 ensures that mental
health continues to be a priority area for investments, interventions, and for program and project-level funding across sectors.
If you would like to share your story with GMHAN we invite you to complete this form below.
A member of the GMHAN team will then be in touch.
Registrations are now open for the 3rd Global Mental Health Advocacy Forum •
Registrations are now open for the 3rd Global Mental Health Advocacy Forum •
