Kenya benefits from $6.1 million fund for mental health

NAIROBI, KENYA: Based on a successful pilot project in which traditional Kenyan healers and community workers helped identify almost 500 cases of mental illness, Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Canadian government, has announced a major scale up investment to be matched by partners. 

The Kenyan initiative is one of six innovations in Africa, Asia and Haiti earning scale-up investments, their pilot projects having proven effective at addressing mental health problems in low-resource countries.