Bangladesh Test Captain Mushfiq Rahim @ Nokutenda Disability Foundation
Nokutenda Disability Foundation focuses on promoting mental health for all participants, as well as promoting and protecting the rights of individuals with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities. Psychosocial disability is a term used to describe the experience of people with impairments and participation restrictions related to mental health conditions.
Craig Ervine @ Nokutenda Disability Foundation
Psychosocial disability relates to the effect that a mental illness has on someone’s ability to participate fully in life. Individuals with a psychosocial disability are prevented from taking part in opportunities such as education, training, and achieving their goals and ambitions.Not everyone with a mental illness will necessarily have a level of impairment that will result in a psychosocial disability.
Our History
Nokutenda Disability Foundation Inc. is registered in South Australia as a mental health Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO).Working with vulnerable participants with mental health illness (including diverse immigrants and indigenous people) to advance their health and social public welfare.
Nokutenda Disability Foundation is also registered under the Private Voluntary Act (PVO) 2007 in Zimbabwe. Nokutenda seeks to help address the problems by working with people with mental health illness in Zimbabwe.
Our mission
To build inclusive communities where people living with mental illness can access the treatment they need and their basic rights are recognized and respected.
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- The activities will range from health education and health promotion, addressing stigma and discrimination and providing facilities for the treatment of mental illness. Processes are underway in the United Kingdom to register the charity.
Focus
The World Health Organization defines mental health as “a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.” Nokutenda Disability Foundation focuses on promoting mental health for all Zimbabweans, as well as promoting and protecting the rights of individuals with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities.
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