BasicNeeds Ghana – Better Mental Health, Better Lives

Working with people with mental health conditions and their families and communities to satisfy their basic needs and exercise their basic rights

How We Work

BasicNeeds-Ghana implements the model for Mental Health and Development (MHD). Read More

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Welcome to BasicNeeds-Ghana

We empower individuals and their families and involve communities and partner with government and other organisations to influence public opinion and policy and enable people with mental illness or epilepsy to live and work successfully in their community.

2019

BasicNeeds-Ghana is a mental health and development advocacy organisation that implements and promotes initiatives to transform the lives of people with mental illness or epilepsy by providing access to integrated mental health care, social and economic services in the communities of Ghana.

In the process, we empower individuals and their families and involve communities and partner with government and other organisations to influence public opinion and policy and enable people with mental illness or epilepsy to live and work successfully in their community.

Our Mission

BasicNeeds-Ghana’s mission is “to develop and implement initiatives that directly involve people with mental illness or epilepsy, and their families and communities and other organisations to enhance self-determination and influence public opinion and decision-making on mental health and development”.

Our Vision

The vision of BasicNeeds-Ghana is that “People with mental illness or epilepsy live in dignity and satisfy their basic needs and exercise their basic rights”.