What is it that we do?
LIFEST is a Malawian non-governmental organization formed with the aim of improving the lives of Malawians through delivery of mental health awareness, counselling, gender-based violence (GBV prevention services, Entrepreneural, arts and culture. LIFEST believes in giving hope and support to those in need in building a better society.
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Our Mission
To change the mindset of people on issues of gender based violence and mental health through counselling, educating, training and support.
Our Vision
To envision mentally healthy and a violent free society.
Our Core Values
1. Integrity
2. respect
3. creativity
4. honest
5. empathy.
Cases
mental health expert provide Solutions @ Imaan mbango
A mental health expert, Dr. Charles Masulani who is the Executive Director for St. John of God Hospital has tipped government to promote financial literacy education and provide social economic activities to people in the country as one way of reducing cases of suicide among the citizenry
About 125 people have committed suicide between September 2018 to June 2019 in this country. Of these only four are women.
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Rising suicides shine spotlight on Malawi's mental health burden @ Charles Mpaka
There is a critical shortage of qualified healthcare staff in Malawi to deal with the growing mental health burden in the country.
When a former deputy speaker of parliament shot himself dead within the National assembly buildings in Lilongwe in September 2021, it shook Malawi. It also turned attention to the mental health burden of mental health challenges in Malawi.
"There's depression, stress and many other silent forms of disorders. more often, we act quickly on a mentally challenged person because he is causing havoc,'' says harry kawiya, a psychiatric clinical officer at the Zomba mental hospital, Malawi's only referral mental health facility and one of the two specialised institutions in the country. ''But the rising of cases of suicides recently tells us the severity of the mental health problem among us, which we are not adequately addressing.''