OPROMAMER
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OPROMAMER
Organisation pour la Promotion et la solidarité des Malades et Handicapés Mentaux au Rwanda, OPROMAMER in French acronyme Word, Is a Partner of CARAES RWANDA ASBL. It works in countrywide and its office is located in Kigali City, Gasabo District, Ndera sector.
JUSTIFICATION OF OPROMAMER
After recognizing the misconceptions about mental health followed by the difficulties that Peers in Mental Health face in the Rwandan community, (including but not limited to), rape, early pregnancies, physical abuse, community/family stigma and rejection, poverty among others. Former patients of psychiatry decided to take action and created a National Association, OPROMAMER has grown since 2012 from individuals’ vision to become a nationwide organisation with twenty independent Peer groups and over 3972 members and still growing. OPROMAMER is working to transform understandings about mental health and to reduce the significant burden of stigma faced by mental health peers in Rwanda as well as empowering them through community initiatives such as saving groups that enable members to access to small loans and pay basic services such as school fees and healthcare insurance. In addition, we do advocacy for peers’ rights through engaging different persons and institutions to mainstream mental health care and reduce discriminatory policies and acts.
OPROMAMER
- Promoting Solidarity and Friendship among Mental Health Peers for self-realization, empowerment and sharing insider knowledge and experiences to reach full potential.
- Ensuring that Psychosocial Disability care and support is mainstreamed throughout Rwanda’s developmental plans.
- Promoting inclusion and addressing the barriers that exclude people with mental illness and/or disabilities, and survivors of psychiatry from full and equal participation in society.
- Aiming to prevent the mental illnesses/disabilities in the community through community psychoeducation.