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Our Work

Ember selects community-based mental health initiatives from around the globe to mentor and fund over a period of 12-24 months. We work together to build their capacity and sustainability, overcome challenges and help them reach their potential.

Ember continues to support and work with…

Alternatives Madagascar

Alternatives Madagascar

Madagascar

Alternatives Madagascar combines mental health care with life skills, economic empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health services, creating tools for self-expression and increasing access to care for all youth including incarcerated children and sex workers.
Yes Theatre

Yes Theatre

Palestine

Yes Theatre uses the transformative power of drama, arts and storytelling to empower children, youth and marginalised communities with life skills, psychological support, and an outlet for creative expression.
Pedal Project

Pedal Project

South Africa

Pedal Project empowers under-resourced children to overcome trauma and instability through mountain biking, combining physical activity with caring mentorship and therapeutic support to build emotional resilience, confidence, and connection in a safe and joyful environment.
Golden Vision Society (GVS)

Golden Vision Society (GVS)

Nepal

GVS aims to raise mental health awareness, reduce stigma, and improve access to care in partnership with government bodies, police, schools, and community healthcare workers.
Centro de Atención a Niños con Necesidades Educativas Especiales (Centre for the Support of Children with Special Education Needs) (CNNEE)

Centro de Atención a Niños con Necesidades Educativas Especiales (Centre for the Support of Children with Special Education Needs) (CNNEE)

Honduras

CNNEE is a lifeline for children with developmental, neurological, and mental health needs, offering vital psycho-pedagogical support through holistic interventions like early stimulation, teacher training, and equine-assisted therapy in a region where educational inclusion remains a distant goal.
Centre for Arts-based Methodologies & Wellbeing (CFAW)

Centre for Arts-based Methodologies & Wellbeing (CFAW)

Pakistan

CFAW delivers a blend of mental health and arts to support individuals and families navigating psychological stress and generational trauma through services such as expressive therapies, trauma-informed training, and community events in safe inclusive spaces such as its Wellbeing Hub.
Centro 32

Centro 32

Mexico

Centro 32 provides psychosocial services to people in mobility contexts such as migrants, asylum seekers, returnees, and unaccompanied minors living in and passing via Tijuana, Baja California through their mobile mental health clinic, therapeutic workshops, and referrals.
Bwindi Community Hospital

Bwindi Community Hospital

Uganda

Bwindi Community Hospital delivers counselling, medication, and occupational therapy to vulnerable communities along the Uganda–DRC border, with clinics run by WHO mhGAP-trained staff to ensure accessible, community-based mental health care.
Grassroots Transitional House (GTH)

Grassroots Transitional House (GTH)

Kenya

GTH provides mental health and wellbeing services such as safe shelter, economic empowerment, and gender-affirming psychological support to the LGBTQIA+ community in rural Mount Kenya.
Urja Trust

Urja Trust

India

This grassroots organisation supports homeless young women experiencing gender-based violence, caste discrimination, and mental health stigma through shelter, healthcare, education, legal support, counselling, expressive arts therapy, and body-based healing.
Um pouco d’arte

Um pouco d’arte

Mozambique

This organisation provides creative, trauma-informed activities such as spoken word poetry, translated songs, comic strips, and dance to promote mental health and collective healing among women and girls experiencing gender-based violence.
Mata Jai Kaur Maternal and Child Health Centre (MJK)

Mata Jai Kaur Maternal and Child Health Centre (MJK)

India

MJK's Kushee Mamta is a rural maternal mental health programme that trains women to be community counsellors who provide mental health support to expecting/new mothers who experience depression, gender-based violence, and suicidal thoughts..
Taala Foundation

Taala Foundation

Uganda

Taala Foundation advocates for advancing holistic wellbeing, fostering inclusivity, and upholding dignity for marginalised groups in Uganda.
Positive Konnections

Positive Konnections

Zimbabwe

Positive Konnections is a tech-enabled support programme for young people living with HIV and experiencing hardship.
Project Phoenix

Project Phoenix

India

Project Phoenix works with children who are in care, living in slums, child care institutions, or whose parents are sex workers to help build bright futures.
Church of Uganda Kisiizi Hospital

Church of Uganda Kisiizi Hospital

Uganda

Kisiizi Hospital is the biggest not-for-profit mental health care provider in rural South-West Uganda, providing free services to more than 400 people per month.
Komunitas Peduli Skizofrenia Indonesia (KPSI)

Komunitas Peduli Skizofrenia Indonesia (KPSI)

Indonesia

KPSI is a support and advocacy network for people living with mental health conditions, particularly schizophrenia, and carers.
Girls for Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

Girls for Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

Kenya

A community-based, survivor-led NGO, providing mental health, educational and legal support to people affected by sexual and gender-based violence.
Hope Restoration and Health Initiative

Hope Restoration and Health Initiative

Nigeria

A residential centre that provides shelter, mental health support and life skills empowerment to individuals recovering from severe mental conditions, partnering with family members, in order to facilitate their reintegration into communities.
ACUFA

ACUFA

Argentina

ACUFA is an association that runs an integrated support program for people experiencing mental health challenges and their families, including peer support groups and income-generating activities.
Global Mental Health Peer Network

Global Mental Health Peer Network

Global

The first global organisation dedicated to cultivating and catalysing a new generation of lived experience leaders to drive transformation in the global mental health sector.
Huertomanías

Huertomanías

Ecuador

Huertomanías is a collective of people living with severe mental health issues, predominantly schizophrenia, whose mission is to achieve financial and social autonomy through livelihoods projects, such as gardening.
Burans

Burans

India

Burans works with disadvantaged communities in Uttarakhand, North India, to promote mental health and wellbeing by building on their strengths and resources.
Community-Based Mental Health Project (CBMHP)

Community-Based Mental Health Project (CBMHP)

Afghanistan

CBMHP is a volunteer-driven system of outreach, home visits, training and referrals to raise awareness and meet mental health needs at community level.
Centre for Mental Health and Counselling Nepal

Centre for Mental Health and Counselling Nepal

Nepal

CMC-Nepal works in collaboration with government, NGOs and community-based organisations to train and supervise health and lay workings in providing psychosocial support.
Mental Health Service Users Association (MHSUA)

Mental Health Service Users Association (MHSUA)

Ethiopia

MHSUA is an association of people with severe mental disorders advocating for their voices to be taken into account in the design and implementation of mental health policy and services in Ethiopia.
Mental Health and Wellbeing on Campus (MH+WB)

Mental Health and Wellbeing on Campus (MH+WB)

Kenya

The mission of MH+WB is to improve the mental health and wellbeing of university students and create a more supportive institutional environment as they navigate the stresses of their studies.
Open Hands

Open Hands

Botswana

Open Hands is a user-led project that supports and advocates for the mental health needs of LGBTI+ communities in Botswana.
Green String Network

Green String Network

East Africa

Green String Network is a social movement that works with communities to heal social and collective traumas.
Society for Pre and Post Natal Services (SPANS)

Society for Pre and Post Natal Services (SPANS)

Zimbabwe

SPANS provides mental health support to new mothers and fathers to promote good mental health across the life cycle.
Punto de Encuentro

Punto de Encuentro

Argentina

Punto de Encuentro’s mission is to strengthen the psychological, economic, and social autonomy of women and young people affected by gender-based violence.
Quan Tam Network

Quan Tam Network

Vietnam

Quan Tam Network is a community support programme that aims to improve the quality of life for people living with severe mental disorders and their carers.
Child, Adolescent and Family Services (CAFS)

Child, Adolescent and Family Services (CAFS)

Sri Lanka

CAFS provides psychosocial services to families and young people experiencing mental distress in a non-clinical setting where they feel at home.
PDO Kenya

PDO Kenya

Kenya

PDO Kenya is a user-led organisation dedicated to making mental health care more accessible, through service provision, advocacy and education.
PHOLA

PHOLA

South Africa

PHOLA works with marginalised communities, including people living with HIV and survivors of domestic violence, to address the negative mental health impacts of trauma, violence, abuse and poverty.
FaNs for Kids

FaNs for Kids

Pakistan

Family Networks (FaNs) for Kids trains, organises and empowers family members of children with developmental disorders to provide better care for their children, and become stigma-busting advocates in their communities.
Buena Semilla

Buena Semilla

Guatemala

Buena Semilla nurtures the health, wellbeing and self-determination of Indigenous and other marginalised communities in Guatemala.