Hands Of Hope Initiative

09/09/2025

September reminds us that just like seasons change, so can we. Let’s be gentle with ourselves as we heal, grow, and create space for mental wellness.

09/09/2025

💙 MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS 💙

Too often, society teaches men to “tough it out,” to stay silent, to hold it all in. But the truth is: men need love. Men need care. Men need healing.👌

This is a powerful time to break the stigma and remind the men in our lives that it’s okay to ask for help, to rest, to be vulnerable.👌

This image is a reminder that:👌

✅ Men need affection
✅ Men need self-care
✅ Men need support
✅ Men need to be told they matter
✅ Men need safety to feel, to cry, to be held
✅ Men need meaningful connections, brotherhood, and tenderness

If you’re a man reading this, your emotions are valid. Your needs are real. You deserve the same compassion you give others.👌

If you love a man — a partner, friend, brother, father check in. Ask how he’s really doing. Let him know it’s okay to not be okay.👌

Let’s create space for healing, for expression, for real strength the kind that comes from being your full, authentic self.👌

🖤 Let’s normalize support, not silence.
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29/03/2025

Bipolar disorder is not the same as the typical ups and downs kids go through. The mood swings are more extreme and accompanied by changes in sleep, energy level, and the ability to think clearly. Know the signs and symptoms.

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29/03/2025

Taking care of your mental health is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

It’s the first step toward healing and growth...

15/02/2024

The scope of the impacts between Gender Based Violence and Mental Health is large, given the reality that gender-based violence is so prevalent.Forty-four percent of all women in Kenya have at least experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 15.
The link between violence and mental health concerns is much higher for women.

Critical supports need to be strengthened for abuse survivors experiencing mental health concerns, both to prevent and address violence.This includes access to long-term counselling,childcare supports, better legal assistance, and employment opportunities.

As Hands Of Hope Initiative we have been Creating awareness and Sensitizing of the ways that both violence and mental health concerns affect the people close to us. Being there as a non-judgmental community supporter, listening, and offering to help find resources are all good ways to break the stigma and the isolation that survivors often feel,Also Capacity build individuals to learn how they can respond to any sign or signal of abuse by becoming a Signal for Help Responder today.

We Challenge ideas and jokes that justify abuse or shame people dealing with Mental Health Issues and efforts of our communities to be aware of gender-based violence and its ripple effect on mental health concerns, and to be supportive of those experiencing both.

28/01/2024

28/01/2024

It's time to create a world where all women feel safe, respected, and empowered.



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28/01/2024

Hands of Hope Initiative Joined Kilifi organizations,Human Rights Defenders, CSOs, and community members for a peaceful march against femicide.Our commitment,as Hands of Hope Initiative is to raise awareness against gender-based violence and other retrogressive cultural practices.

GBV impacts every aspect of an individual’s life, including their mental health.Women who experience violence are 3-5 times more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD, depression, experience suicidal ideation, and problems with substance use.

When women experience violent trauma, their mental health is in serious jeopardy.It not only affects their present and their future but also impacts the future of their families and loved ones.

If you have experienced Gender-Based Violence, know that you are not alone. And it is not your fault.

Hands Of Hope Initiative Offers information on different mental illnesses, treatment options, and ways to support yourself and others.

Thank you Kilifi Community, Kilifi Department of Youth Affairs and Sports Feminists in Kenya Usikimye Desire youth intiative Timiza Youth Initiative Nawiri Africa Kilifi County gender department CEC Dr. Ruth D. Masha Flora Mbetsa Chibule Youth DARE Initiative - Y D, I Kilifi Youth Advisory Council ActionAid Kenya Kenya Community Support Centre (KECOSCE) Kesho Kenya Kilifi Department of Gender, Culture and Social Services Kilifi Department of Health and Sanitation CFK Africa

Photo Credit: Lucas Lenjo

26/01/2024

In Kenya, a disturbing surge in femicide is evident, women are falling victim to brutal murders. Shockingly, some of their lifeless bodies are discovered discarded in trash cans, severed from their heads.The blatant disregard for the value of women's lives is truly heart-wrenching.

What has our world devolved into? This is a plea, a cry to humanity:
STOP KILLING WOMEN!!!
SAY NO TO FEMICIDE!

26/12/2023

People at risk for depression may benefit from more social support. New research used All of Us data to look at 3 types of social support, finding the more types of social support a participant had, the lower their risk of depression, with some providing more benefits than others..