Isabella Mukankusi
Co-founder
Wak Mental Health Defenders is a Not for Profit organization founded on the idea that every individual has a right to live in a society where their potential is fully realized to live meaningful lives.
We are a community of friends, well-wishers, persons with a lived experience of psychosocial disability, their families and individuals affected with and by psychosocial disability in the community. Our work addresses the most pressing social problems affecting the most vulnerable in our community affected by psychosocial disability who in most cases, are forgotten.
Our lived experience as persons with, and caregivers of persons affected by Psychosocial disability in families, neighborhood, workplaces, prisons, health centres, and schools motivate and inspire us to contribute to this often-invisible battle cutting across all sectors.
WMHD believes that psychosocial disability do not receive the right level of investment and therefore working with a dedicated group of partners from backgrounds including lived experience, academia, service, and policy employing systematic approaches and continuous learning, we act to address the inequality and injustice against persons living with psychosocial disability, now and for the future.
Born and raised in Uganda. We have each seen and experienced firsthand human rights abuses and discrimination against people with psychosocial disabilities in our communities, prisons where we both have worked, schools, and workplaces. We have seen the gap in addressing some of these challenges across the country. So we were inspired to co-found Wak Mental Health Defenders, a non-profit to contribute to addressing social problems affecting the most vulnerable in our community affected by psychosocial disability who in most cases, are forgotten.
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