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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.

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ADORE Mental Wellbeing & Care

ADORE Mental Wellbeing & Care

Myanmar

Cohort 2025

ADORE is a youth-led mental health organisation that offers a hybrid online and offline approach that provides peer support, trauma-informed care, safe spaces and healing, catering to local communities and diaspora groups in Myanmar.
Dlalanathi (Play with Us)

Dlalanathi (Play with Us)

South Africa

Cohort 2025

Dlalanathi supports healthy relationships by training caregivers and parents to use play-based and trauma-informed approaches to translate therapeutic practices into structured, community-based programmes—strengthening adult–child bonds and caregiver mental health over the life course, especially in communities affected by trauma, poverty, violence, and generational HIV.
Inside Out

Inside Out

South Africa

Cohort 2025

InsideOut NPO is a collective of trainers and community workers dedicated to social justice, healing, and transformation, supporting individuals and communities affected by violence and oppression through a people-centered, systemic approach.
Alternatives Madagascar

Alternatives Madagascar

Madagascar

Cohort 2025

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 to provide mental health support to incarcerated youth, marginalised women and women in situations of prostitution.
Yes Theatre for Communication among Youth

Yes Theatre for Communication among Youth

Palestine

Cohort 2025

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

Cohort 2025

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

Cohort 2025

GVS aims to raise mental health awareness, reduce stigma, and improve access to care in partnership with government bodies, law enforcement agencies, schools, and community healthcare workers, specifically prioritising serving women and children from remote rural areas and people from unprivileged communities.
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

Cohort 2025

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

Cohort 2025

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

Centro 32

Mexico

Cohort 2025

Centro 32 is a non-profit organisation that provides psychosocial support, counselling and comprehensive services to independent women, children, adolescents and LGBTIQ+ people in contexts of human mobility, including refugees, people displaced by violence, asylum seekers, repatriated persons, returnees and unaccompanied children.
Bwindi Community Hospital

Bwindi Community Hospital

Uganda

Cohort 2025

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

Cohort 2025

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

Urja Trust

India

Cohort 2025

This grassroots organisation supports homeless young women who have faced gender-based violence, caste discrimination, and mental health stigma by providing shelter, healthcare, employment, education, legal aid, access to civil entitlements, and a trauma-informed, holistic, and inclusive therapeutic approach that nurtures the mind, body, and soul through counseling, expressive arts therapy, and Dance Movement Therapy.
Um Pouco d’arte

Um Pouco d’arte

Mozambique

Cohort 2025

This organisation provides creative, trauma-informed activities such as translated songs, comic strips, poetry, and spoken words to promote mental health and collective healing through music, art, and storytelling 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

Cohort 2025

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

Taala Foundation

Uganda

Cohort 2022

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

Project Phoenix

India

Cohort 2022

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.
Positive Konnections

Positive Konnections

Zimbabwe

Cohort 2022

Positive Konnections is a tech-enabled support programme for young people living with HIV and experiencing hardship.
Komunitas Peduli Skizofrenia Indonesia (KPSI)

Komunitas Peduli Skizofrenia Indonesia (KPSI)

Indonesia

Cohort 2022

KPSI is a support and advocacy network for people living with mental health conditions, particularly schizophrenia, and carers.
Church of Uganda Kisiizi Hospital

Church of Uganda Kisiizi Hospital

Uganda

Cohort 2022

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.
Hope Restoration and Health Initiative

Hope Restoration and Health Initiative

Nigeria

Cohort 2022

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.
Girls for Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

Girls for Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

Kenya

Cohort 2022

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

ACUFA

Argentina

Cohort 2022

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

Cohort 2022

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Huertomanías

Ecuador

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Cohort 2020

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

Taala Foundation

Uganda

Cohort 2022

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

Project Phoenix

India

Cohort 2022

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.
Positive Konnections

Positive Konnections

Zimbabwe

Cohort 2022

Positive Konnections is a tech-enabled support programme for young people living with HIV and experiencing hardship.
Komunitas Peduli Skizofrenia Indonesia (KPSI)

Komunitas Peduli Skizofrenia Indonesia (KPSI)

Indonesia

Cohort 2022

KPSI is a support and advocacy network for people living with mental health conditions, particularly schizophrenia, and carers.
Church of Uganda Kisiizi Hospital

Church of Uganda Kisiizi Hospital

Uganda

Cohort 2022

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.
Hope Restoration and Health Initiative

Hope Restoration and Health Initiative

Nigeria

Cohort 2022

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.
Girls for Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

Girls for Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

Kenya

Cohort 2022

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

ACUFA

Argentina

Cohort 2022

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

Cohort 2022

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.
ADORE Mental Wellbeing & Care

ADORE Mental Wellbeing & Care

Myanmar

Cohort 2025

ADORE is a youth-led mental health organisation that offers a hybrid online and offline approach that provides peer support, trauma-informed care, safe spaces and healing, catering to local communities and diaspora groups in Myanmar.
Dlalanathi (Play with Us)

Dlalanathi (Play with Us)

South Africa

Cohort 2025

Dlalanathi supports healthy relationships by training caregivers and parents to use play-based and trauma-informed approaches to translate therapeutic practices into structured, community-based programmes—strengthening adult–child bonds and caregiver mental health over the life course, especially in communities affected by trauma, poverty, violence, and generational HIV.
Inside Out

Inside Out

South Africa

Cohort 2025

InsideOut NPO is a collective of trainers and community workers dedicated to social justice, healing, and transformation, supporting individuals and communities affected by violence and oppression through a people-centered, systemic approach.
Alternatives Madagascar

Alternatives Madagascar

Madagascar

Cohort 2025

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 to provide mental health support to incarcerated youth, marginalised women and women in situations of prostitution.
Yes Theatre for Communication among Youth

Yes Theatre for Communication among Youth

Palestine

Cohort 2025

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

Cohort 2025

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

Cohort 2025

GVS aims to raise mental health awareness, reduce stigma, and improve access to care in partnership with government bodies, law enforcement agencies, schools, and community healthcare workers, specifically prioritising serving women and children from remote rural areas and people from unprivileged communities.
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

Cohort 2025

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

Cohort 2025

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

Centro 32

Mexico

Cohort 2025

Centro 32 is a non-profit organisation that provides psychosocial support, counselling and comprehensive services to independent women, children, adolescents and LGBTIQ+ people in contexts of human mobility, including refugees, people displaced by violence, asylum seekers, repatriated persons, returnees and unaccompanied children.
Bwindi Community Hospital

Bwindi Community Hospital

Uganda

Cohort 2025

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

Cohort 2025

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

Urja Trust

India

Cohort 2025

This grassroots organisation supports homeless young women who have faced gender-based violence, caste discrimination, and mental health stigma by providing shelter, healthcare, employment, education, legal aid, access to civil entitlements, and a trauma-informed, holistic, and inclusive therapeutic approach that nurtures the mind, body, and soul through counseling, expressive arts therapy, and Dance Movement Therapy.
Um Pouco d’arte

Um Pouco d’arte

Mozambique

Cohort 2025

This organisation provides creative, trauma-informed activities such as translated songs, comic strips, poetry, and spoken words to promote mental health and collective healing through music, art, and storytelling 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

Cohort 2025

MJK's Kushee Mamta is a rural maternal mental health program that trains women to be community counsellors who provide mental health support to women who are pregnant, new mothers, and those who experience depression, gender-based violence and suicidal thoughts.