Social projects of the Brothers of Charity: mental health care

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Mental Health Carein Latin America, Africa and Asia by the Brothers of Charity

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Dear Sir / Madam,

Since 1815 the Brothers of Charity have cared for mentally ill fellow people. On 30 September 1815 the first Brothers of Charity, together with their Founder, Peter Joseph Triest, delivered the mentally ill from their shackles in the cellars of Gerard The Devil Castle in Ghent. This historic event was the start of a development of care which stretches into the present.

From 1821 Dr Joseph Guislain, the first Belgian psychiatrist, in cooperation with Canon P.J. Triest, designed a care model based on Christian charity and professional treatment.

Today the Brothers of Charity are caring for no less than 7,000 patients in Belgium. In addition, they dedicate themselves to the care of disabled youths and adults, of the aged, drug addicts, AIDS patients and the poor, and they organise education for children, youths and adults.

In 1865 some Brothers of Charity settled in Canada, and in 1887 the Congregation obtained pontifical approbation.

From 1911 their horizon was widened when they started missionary work in the Belgian Congo.

At present, the Brothers of Charity are active in 31 countries spread over several continents.

They endeavour to propagate the culture of the caritas based on their specific charism by taking care of their fellow people neglected by the society. They try to give them a more humane life.

I am glad to offer you a survey of our care for mentally ill worldwide, and that for already 200 years! Till today mentally ill people are among the most abandoned. In many countries the care is totally insufficient, inadequate or even nonexistent. A stubborn taboo against them often causes far-reaching neglect, merciless imprisonment and painful treatment. Therefore, the recent new foundations of the Congregation

are mainly in the realm of mental health care.

Many demands for help remain unanswered because of lack of manpower and means. Yet, we try to meet any demand for concrete help. For it is hard, if not impossible, to remain unmoved at the sight of a mentally ill person in tatters roaming the streets and chased by youngsters; or to think of caged mentally ill people in a huge psychiatric centre which resembles a medieval prison.

Break the chains, dissolve taboos, offering new perspectives to mentally ill fellow people: they do not make a sensational story, nor a promising one. We, Brothers of Charity, pursue consequently what our Founder started from a deep inspiration. We do so with God’s grace, with the support of many and thanks to our unremitting efforts. Mental health care is an important challenge also in the 21st century.

Bro Dr. René Stockman General Superior Brothers of Charity

Gerard The Devil Castle in Ghent with its humid cellars was the place where aggressive mentally ill were lodged from the 17th century. The care given was below par. In Brother Leonard’s chronicles we find a true to life report of the first days when the Brothers of Charity took over.

“The unfortunate people were imprisoned in

subterranean cages. Air and light were lacking

and disgusting uncleanness prevailed. Their

food was passed on through a hole in the wal

lor one filled a metal bowl attached to a chain.

The poor creatures used their ten fingers as a

fork or spoon.

They wore a kind of long nightshirt; they slept

on straw and did not have a chair, table, WC

or chamber-pot. These human stables were

somewhat cleaned daily and put in order ; one

added some fresh straw so that the poor patient

could manage till the following day.

We saw several unseemly things, among others

an angry madman who protested and who was

put in irons; as he did not behave according to

the servants’ will, one of them hit his legs with

iron shackles till he kept quiet. The wound

festered and the poor man died of it.”

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where it all started...

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• Canon Peter Joseph Triest (1760-1836)

As a young priest he lived in hiding for five years in Ronse. In 1803 he was appointed parish priest at Lovendegem (near Ghent), where he founded the Sisters of Charity to meet the need of neglected children at the village. In 1806 he settled in Ghent, where he sat on the Commission of Hospices. There he founded the Brothers of Charity in 1807, the Brothers of St John de Deo in 1823, and the Sisters of the Childhood Jesu in 1836 – as many answers to the many needs. He is rightly called the Vincent de Paul of Belgium.

• Dr. Joseph Guislain (1797-1860)

As a young physician he was approached by Canon Peter Joseph Triest with regard to helping develop a professional care of the mentall ill in Ghent. The doctor accepted the task as a vocation and revealed himself as the pioneer of psychiatry in Belgium. He lectured at the University of Ghent, drew up a set of regulations for psychiatric care, did scientific research and wrote a number of renowned introductions to psychiatry. Moreover, he designed a new pilot hospital for the care of the mentally ill. After his death he was considered the father of psychiatric care.

• Bro. Bernardus De Noter (1749-1832)

As the first superior of the Brothers of Charity, he became also the first director of Gerard The Devil Castle of which the inmates were moved to the Alexian Mo-nastery in Ghent. Under very difficult circumstances he managed to motivate the Brothers to persevere in their vocation. He became the right-hand man of both Canon Peter Joseph Triest and Dr Joseph Guislain; thus he combined his essential religous motivation with expert care giving.

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BELGIUMBURUNDI

DR CONGOETHIOPIA

INDIAINDONESIA

IVORY COASTPAKISTAN

PERURWANDA

SOUTH-AFRICASRI LANKATANZANIA

THE PHILIPPINESVIETNAM

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Worldwide survey: mENTAL hEALTh CARE By ThE BROThERS Of ChARITy

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Bro. Dr. René StockmanSuperior General of the Brothers of Charity

Introduction

In September 2007, the Lancet published a fa-mous study on “Global Mental Health”entitled: “No health without mental health”. In the introduction we read: “About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attrib-uted to neuropsychiatric disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabled nature of de-pression and other common mental disorders, alcohol-use and substance-use disorders, and psychoses. Mental health awareness needs to be integrated into all aspects of health and so-cial policy, health-system planning, and deliv-ery of primary and secondary general health care”.

For 200 years, the Congregation of the Broth-ers of Charity has been contributing to the development of the mental health care world-wide. What started in 1807 as a local initiative in Ghent (Belgium), developed into an inter-national organization present in 25 countries and still growing, especially in Asia and Af-rica. In addition to the initiatives in the field of education and care for people with disabili-ties, theCongregation has developed a genuine exper-tise in the field of mental health care. We will now give a brief overview.

The Brothers of Charity Services in the 1. field of mental health care

The Brothers of Charity were founded as a Catholic religious congregation by Rev. Canon P.J. Triest in Belgium in 1807. It was the first congregation of religious brothers to be founded after the French Revolution. The basic philosophy or char-ism of the Congregation is to be found in

the name: Brothers of Charity. Brother: the members are invited to be-come brothers of those who have no brother, who are abandoned by society: the poor, the elderly, people with all sorts of disabilities, with mental retardation, with mental diseases, and always in the current time and culture.Charity: the members are invited to devel-op charity for these people, i.e. to translate the love of God into concrete love for the neighbour. Charity is a dynamic process that finds its origin in love and that be-comes concrete through compassion and is rendered into works of mercy. And these works of mercy have to be carried out in a professional way. Professional care is the result of love and is an expression of the love that God has for all of his children.After taking care of elderly people who were totally abandoned, the first Brothers of Charity started in 1815 with the care of psychiatric patients who were – in that time – seen as being possessed, they were chained and imprisoned. The first act that was done for these men was liberating them from their chains – a historical moment in the history of psychiatric care – and start professional care. The first psychiatrist in Belgium was Prof. Dr. Joseph Guislain who developed with the founder, Can. Tri-est, and the first Brothers of Charity the moral treatment, based on a positive vision of man, out of the conviction that madness was an illness that needed treatment as was done with other diseases. In 2006, Prof. Guislain was proclaimed the most famous professor of the Ghent University. Mental health care in Belgium was born and the Brothers of Charity became front-liners in its further development, to this very day. Today, this is translated in the existence of 15 psychiatric centres in Belgium where all kinds of mental disorders are treated in different types of facilities. But in other

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countries, as well, the Brothers of Charity have taken initiatives to develop mental health care, especially in Africa and Asia. In some of these countries, they are true pioneers and still the only providers of mental health care. An example is Central Africa where a network of mental health care is organized by the Brothers of Char-ity in Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and the north part of Tanzania. But also in Asia, they started with mental health care pro-grammes in India, Indonesia, the Philip-pines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and they col-laborate on initiatives in Vietnam, China and Mongolia.In most of these countries, the support of the local authorities is very poor, so that funds have to be found on a more inter-national level in order to organize and de-velop these initiatives.

Strategies of the Brothers of Charity in 2. the development of mental health care in Africa and Asia.

The Brothers of Charity have developed 5 strategies in organizing mental health care programmes in Africa and Asia.

Changing the general mentality with 1. regard to psychiatric illness and psy-chiatric patients

Psychiatric patients are seen as be-ing possessed by bad spirits, they are abandoned by societyand they are thrown in prison. Soci-ety is afraid of them, and everything about psychiatricillness is considered a taboo. When creating initiatives in the field of mental health care, theBrothers of Charity try to change this general mentality.

Some examples:During the inauguration of •the new psychiatric hospital in Yamoussoukro (IvoryCoast, Africa), both the bishop •and the Health Minister thanked the Brothers ofCharity that they had come to •“clean up the city”. It was quite difficult for them to recognize that the chronic psychiatric pa-tients who were wandering the citystreets, really dirty and naked,

were still human beings. After a few years, the city is “cleaned”, but these psychiatric patients are back in society, more adapted and more accepted. They have regained their human dignity.In Ranchi (India), during a visit •to a big psychiatric hospital where more than 1000 chronic psychi-atric patients were locked up, one patient told: “I am condemned to be in prison for the rest of my life, and I have done nothing wrong”. Worldwide, so many chronic psy-chiatric patients are kept as pris-oners in big hospitals without care and without respect for their hu-man dignity. They have lost their freedom and their human dignity because of their mental illness. In Ranchi, the Brothers of Charity provided an alternative with a half-way house where chronic psychiat-ric patients are taken over from the hospital and are rehabilitated in order to return to society.In Manila (the Philippines), thou-•sands of chronic psychiatric pa-tients are kept in wards of 60 beds, behind bars as in a prison, and with one shower and one toilet at their disposal. During a visit, when shaking hands with these patients, the psychiatrist who guided the visitors, warned us not to do so, because “all of these patients have TB and skin diseases, which is nor-mal in psychiatry”. Indeed, when 60 persons are kept in a small space together in a very hot climate and with only one shower and one toi-let, than it is normal that everyone will have TB and skin diseases. As an alternative, the Brothers of Charity started a psychiatric nursing home in Tabaco, Legaspi, where especially chronic psychiat-ric patients are rehabilitated.

Integrating the care of psychiatric 2. patients in the general health care programmes

In countries where they start ini-tiatives in the field of mental health care, the Brothers of Charity try to convince local governments to recog-nize this care as part of the country’s

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global health care. They try to stimu-late and create a form of cooperation in the field of mental health care with the ministry of health and develop a programme of mental health care in their health policy. They ask special attention for the legal conditions of those patients who have to be iso-lated from society because of their behaviour which can be dangerous for themselves and their environment. Special attention is asked for those pa-tients who are in prison because of an offence due to their mental disorder.

An example:In Rwanda and Burundi, the Brothers of Charity supported the creation of a form of cooperation for mental health care on the level of the Ministry of Health, theycollaborated in the development of the legal framework for psychiatric patients who have to be taken to hos-pital by force, they take over psychiat-ric patients who are detained in pris-ons and they are going to the prisons to take care of the psychiatric patients who cannot leave the prison.

Developing adapted therapy, cure and 3. care for different types of mental dis-eases and on several levels

In mental health care, we are con-fronted with several realities requir-ing specific action.

Acute psychiatric diseases need an •acute cure with adapted therapies on a medical, psychological, social and existential level. Psychotropic medication must be made available.Stabilized and chronic psychiat-•ric patients require more care and adapted rehabilitation programmes, in order to bring the patients into the most adequate social environ-ment. This can mean going back to society, but also being placed in projects of sheltered living, shel-tered workshops and special rest homes for chronic psychiatric pa-tients.Psychiatric diseases linked to other •diseases and situations: people with aids, with drug addiction, post-traumatic diseases linked to war

situations, violence against women, refugees and displaced people. All of these groups demand a specific treatment. In Rwanda for example, the Brothers of Charity started up special programmes for victims of the genocide; in the Kivu Re-gion of Congo, there are special programmes for women who were victims ofviolence; in Tanzania, for those who are living in refugee camps psychiatric clinics are set up and trauma counselling pro-grammes are organized.The importance of creating psychi-•atric consultations in the existing health care facilities: medical cen-tres, rural hospitals, social services.Developing prevention pro-•grammes in schools, churches, lo-cal communities. For example: in Kikwit, the staff of the psychiatric hospital organized a theatrical per-formance about the difference in treatment of psychiatric patients by a witch doctor and treatment in hospital.They perform this play in the lo-•cal communities in order to create awareness. In the meantime, we develop education programmes for schools by which youngsters can learn more on how to deal with mental illness.Developing a positive attitude to-•wards mental illness in our own schools and, at the same time, de-veloping inclusive education on all levels and for all children without discrimination. By means of adapt-ed education and specialized medi-cal treatment, we give youth the possibility to develop a good life in society, and so prevent that they should be excluded from society due to their illness or disability.

For example:In Congo, we have several special-•ized institutes for children and adults with physical disabilities, where surgical treatment and re-habilitation programmes are devel-oped for children with polio. One child in Nioki (Congo) told us: “I used to be like an animal, walking on all fours; now I am a human

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being and I can walk like everyone else.”In Kigoma (Tanzania), the Broth-•ers of Charity have developed pro-grammes of distance learning for children and youth living in refugee camps. Thousands of young people now have the possibility to obtain a diploma which gives them a per-spective for the future.In Ndera (Rwanda), in the vicinity of •the psychiatric hospital, the Broth-ers of Charity started a day centre for children with mental retardation. With simple activities, the children are taught to do basic domestic activities, so that they become ap-preciated in a more positive way.

The cornerstone is training local 4. workers in mental health care.

In the African and Asian countries where the Brothers of Charity are ac-tive, there are very few psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, so-cial workers. An important task is to train local people to become special-ists in mental health care. Therefore, training programmes are developed on several levels:

Founding schools for psychiatric •nurses. For example: in Rwanda and in Congo, schools for psychi-atric nurses are founded; in Tanza-nia, a school for social workers was established.Developing training programmes •and exchange programmes for med-ical doctors and other health care workers at the request of the local authorities and other nongovern-mental organizations, in order to enhance mental health care. Bel-gian specialists are sent to Africa and Asia and training programmes are organized in the psychiatric hospitals in Belgium for African and Asian health care workers.

For example:In Mongolia, China, the Philip-•pines, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, South Africa and other countries, exchange programmes are devel-oped by the Brothers of Charity at the request of the local government.

Training programmes are currently prepared in India (Mumbai) and Abu Dhabi.Creating the “International Insti-•tute Canon Triest” in Belgium in collaboration with the Catholic University of America in Washing-ton, the Lateran University of Rome and several universities and colleges in Belgium, with programmes for psychiatric nursing and interna-tional health care management.

Strong international structure and or-5. ganization, focused on quality, conti-nuity and solidarity

The Brothers of Charity combine a strong international central structure, creating real solidarity between the different partners, with a participa-tive management system involving the local partners in the decision-making and the sharing of the responsibility. With this combination, the Brothers of Charity guarantee the continuity of the engagements. In all programmes, the focus is orientated on the qual-ity of life. Recently, the Brothers of Charity have started with an interna-tional n.g.o. Fracarita International, in order to bring those people from several continents together who wish to help and support the Congrega-tion in their efforts for the promo-tion of the protection of persons with mental illness, especially focused on human rights for psychiatric patients. For this purpose, several International Friends Committees have been creat-ed and also international fundraising activities are organized.

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NEuROPSyChIATRIC CENTRE KAmENGE

BURUNDI

B.P. 666 Bujumbura . Burundicontact: Bro. hippolyte manirakizae-mail: [email protected]

Date of foundation : 1978

Target group : acute and chronic psychiatric patients

120 places for acute care, adults and children

Number of co-workers: 63

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Bujumbura

This psychiatric centre pays special attention to ambulant care and support to regional dispensaries.

GitegaPSyChIATRIC REhABILITATION CENTRE GITEGA

burundi

B.P. 144 . Kikwit - R.D. Congo Contact: Bro. Floribert Kabindu

e-mail: [email protected]

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B.P. 172 . Gitega - Burundi Contact: Bro. Emile Nibigira


Year of foundation : 2011Target group : acute and chronic psychiatric patients, ambulant care and hospitalisationCapacity: 20 places for acute care, adultsNumber of co-workers: 20

Very important to be present in the centre of the country to prevent huge transport problems.

PSyChIATRIC REhABILITATION CENTRE GITEGA

NgoziPSyChIATRIC REhABILITATION CENTRE NGOZI

burundi

Date of foundation : 2014Target group : acute and chronic psychiatric patients, ambulant care and hospitalisationCapacity: 20 places for acute care, adultsNumber of co-workers: 15

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Contact: Bro. hippolyte manirakizae-mail: [email protected]

A small centre that is serving the southern part of the country.

Kananga

dr congo

B.P.70 Kananga R.D. CongoContact: Bro. Alphonse Ndjibu Zaklame NEuROPSyChIATRIC CENTRE

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Date of foundation : 1958, relocated 2010Target group : acute and chronic psychiatric patients 30 places acute care, both ambulant and hospitalisationNumber of co-workers: 24

This only psychiatric hospital in Central Congo pays special attention to regional care in Kasai.

LubumbashiPSyChIATRIC CENTREDR. GuISLAIN

dr congo

Avenue de la Basilique 141-143Commune de la KenyaLubumbashi - R.D. Congo

Contact: Bro. Ghislain Basubie-mail: [email protected]

The establishment of this psychiatric centre meets a very great need in Katanga.

Date of foundation : September 2003Target group : acute psychiatric patients30 places acute careNumber of co-workers: 31

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PSyChIATRIC CENTRE PIERRE JOSEPh TRIEST



In volle ontwikkeling als pas opgestart ziekenhuis in een bestaand complex. Bedient West-Kongo

dr congo

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Lusanga

B.P. 144 . Kikwit - R.D. Congo Contact: Bro. Fréderic Kazadi


As a recently established hospital within an existing complex it is in full development and serves West Congo.

Date of foundation : December 2003

Target group : acute psychiatric patients

Capacity: 30 places for acute care of youth and adults and a consultation centre in the city of Kikwit


PSyChIATRIC CENTRE PIERRE JOSEPh TRIEST dr Congo

B.P.02 - Cyangugu . RWANDAContact: Bro. Jean-Baptiste musawue-mail: [email protected]

Special attention is given to posttraumatic psychiatric problems because of the state of war.

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Bukavu

Date of foundation : September 1994Target group : acute and chronic psychiatric patientsCapacity: 60 bedsNumber of co-workers: 15

PSyChIATRIC CENTRE SOSAmE

dr congo GomaTuLIZO LETu

Contact: Bro. Justin Bashombee-mail: [email protected]


Target group : acute psychiatric patients, residential and home care

Capacity: 40 places


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Shabunda PSyChIATRIC CENTRE

In volle ontwikkeling als pas opgestart ziekenhuis in een bestaand complex. Bedient West-Kongo

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Contact: Bro. Théodore-Medard Kalonga e-mail: [email protected]

Started as an antenna of Sosame Bukavu, in order to serve the local population, traumatized by a long war situation.

Target group : acute psychiatric patients, both consultation and hospitalisationCapacity: 20 placesNumber of co-workers: 10

DR Congo

UviraPSyChIATRIC CENTRE

DR Congo

Date of foundation : september 1994

target group : acute /chronische psychiatrische patiënten

60 bedden

number of co-workers: 15

Contact: Bro. Innocent Karhashimae-mail: [email protected]

Is functioning as antenna of Sosame-Bukavu.


Target group : acute and chronic psychiatric patients, both consultation and hospitalization

Capacity: 15 places Number of co-workers: 10

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Addis AbebaGEfERSA mENTAL hEALTh REhABILITATION CENTRE

Contact: Bro. Eric Jeje


Date of foundation : 2007, taken over by the Brothers of Charity in 2012

Target group : acute psychiatric patients, residential and home care

Capacity: 140 places Co-workers: 75

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An asylum was transformed in a modern rehabilitation centre with new buildings and professional trained co-workers.

INDIA



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Address: 182, Kanke Road - Ranchi, 834008, IndiaContact: Bro. Suboth Ekko

e-mail: Bro. [email protected]

The focus is on society-directed rehabilitation of abandoned and long-term psychiatric patients, as well as the formation of health workers active in rehabilitation.

Date of foundation: 1997Target group : chronic patientsCapacity: 20 places, with emphasis on rehabilitation via sheltered living and workingNumber of co-workers: 7

Date of foundation : 1997, taken over by the Brothers of Charity in 2011Target group : chronic psychiatric patients and training of workers in mental health careCapacity: 20 places Number of co-workers: 10

RanchiPARAm mITRA SADAN

INDIA

Date of foundation : september 1994

target group : acute /chronische psychiatrische patiënten

60 bedden


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Date of foundation : 1997, taken over by the Brothers of Charity in 2011Target group : chronic psychiatric patients and training of workers in mental health careCapacity: 20 places Number of co-workers: 10

Kozhikode (Calicut)PSyChIATRIC REhABILITATION CENTRE ShANTI BhAvAN

Address: Medical College PostKozhikode 673008 - KeralaContact: Bro. Aiswan Lakrae-mail: [email protected]

india

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SivagangaiCENTRE fOR PSyChIATRIC REhABILITATION SAINT GIuSEPPE mOSCATI

Ambulant and residential care for people with chronic psychiatric disorders and for people with drug dependence.

Date of foundation : 2008Target group : chronic patients and drug addictsCapacity: 30 places Number of co-workers: 12

meena vayal village, Ariyakudi Post - Karaikudi Takuk Sivagangai District - 630 202 Tamil NaduBro. Wilfred SwaminathanContact: [email protected]

Date of foundation : 1 January 2005

target group : chronic psychiatric patients

30 places for chronic care and rehabilitation programmes


SAhABAT KITA

indonesiA

Jl. K. Wahid hasyim 4Purworejo 54111INDONESIA

Contact: Bro. ferdinandus harune-mail: [email protected]

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Purworejo

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Contact: Bro. Bartolomeus murtonee-mail: [email protected]

The only initiative in the field of mental health care in this region of Indonesia, for a population of 3 million inhabitants.

indonesiA

Date of foundation : 25 september 2014


Capacity: 20 places


RutengRENCENG mOSE PSyChIATRIC CENTRE

KuNCI NANDAN REhABILITATION CENTRE fOR DRuG ADDICTS

indonesia

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Yogyakarta


Target group : prevention and treatment of drug dependence; prevention programmes for childree of school age


Contact:Bro. Polikarpus manaôe-mail: [email protected]

This is an initiative to meet a new need in Indonesia – the increased spread of drug addiction.

indonesiA

ST vINCENT DE PAuL hOmE Of PSyChIATRIC CARE

ivory coast

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Target group : prevention and treatment of drug dependence; prevention programmes for childree of school age


Date of foundation : November 2002

target group : chronic patients

32 places for chronic care

Ambulant care for acute patients


B.P. 2473YamoussoukroCôte d’Ivoire

Contact:Bro. félicien Ngendahimanae-mail: [email protected]

Yamoussoukro

This is a totally new concept in an African context.

Lahore

PAKISTAN

PAK DIL CENTER

Contact: Bro. mahmood masihE-mail: [email protected]

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Date of foundation : 2010Target group : chronic psychiatric patients Capacity: 10 placesNumber of co-workers: 24

Rehabilitation centre, small-scaled and very patient oriented.

LimaESCuELA DE vIDA - CENTRE fOR REhABILITATION Of PEOPLE WITh DRuG ADDICTION

peru

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target group : A therapeutic community for people with drug addiction.

Capacity: 30 places


Av. Héroes del Cenepa, Lote 131, Comas - Lima 7Contact: Bro. Jimi Antonio huayta-Riverae-mail: [email protected]

A therapeutic community for people with drug addiction.

AyacuchoCOmISION DE SALuD mENTAL DE AyACuChO

peru

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target group : A therapeutic community for people with drug addiction.

Capacity: 30 places


Date of foundation : 2003target group : chronic patients

32 places for chronic care

Ambulant care for acute patients


Jr. Sol 637Ayacucho

Contact:Bro. Jimi Antonio huayta-Riverae-mail: [email protected]

Day Care Centre with consultation of psychiatric patients. Support to those who have been deeply affected by the attacks of the Shining Path in the eighties and the nineties.

RWANDA

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NderaPSyChIATRIC CENTRECARAES

RWANDA



200 places for acute care of adults20 places for acute care of children and youths30 places for chronic careService for neurology.


B.P. 423KigaliRwanda

Contact: Bro. Charles Nkubilie-mail: [email protected]

This is the reference centre of Rwanda. It is also a day centre for youths with a mental disability, and a training centre for psychiatric nurses.

PSyChIATRIC CENTRECARAES

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RWANDA

Butare


Target group : acute and chronic psychiatric patients and aftercare

50 places for acute care of adults


Special attention is given to aftercare and ambulant treatment.

RWANDA

B.P. 51ButareRwanda

Contact:Bro. Charles Nkubilie-mail: [email protected]

Rwanda

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ICyIZERE PSyChOThERAPEuTIC CENTRE

Kigali

A new concept of mental health care, in the city and with a low stigma.

Contact: Bro. Charles Nkubilie-mail: [email protected]

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Date of foundation : 6 June 2013

Target group : people with addiction and post-traumatic-stress disorders45 places for chronic care


SOUTH-AFRICA

Florida (Johannesburg)PSyChIATRIC CENTRE

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Target group : chronic psychiatric patients

40 places for chronic care via sheltered living.Occupational therapy for 50 places


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40 places for chronic care via sheltered living.Occupational therapy for 50 places


Rose Street 591710 FloridaSouth-Africa

Contact:Margi Kinge-mail: [email protected]: www.thandananicentre.co.za

KalmunaiSri lanka

Carmel Fatima Road - Kalmunai, 32300Contact: Bro. Lawrence Packiame-mail: [email protected]



Capacity: 15


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B.P. 51ButareRwanda

Contact:Bro. Charles Nkubilie-mail: [email protected]

SAINT BENEDICT mENNI mENTAL hEALTh REhABILITATION CENTRE

Founded after the tsunami for residential mental health care.

tanzania

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ST DymPNA PSyChIATRIC CARE CENTRE

Marumba

Date of foundation : February 2004


22 places for sheltered living with therapy


P.O. Box 344Kasulu

Tanzania

Contact:Bro. Jean Baptiste Ilungae-mail: hansbaptisteilun-

[email protected]

The concept is to create a living therapeutic community for psychiatric patients with their family.

Kigomatanzania

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PSyChIATRIC CENTRE SAINT CORNELIuS

Date of foundation : 12 December 2012

Target group : acute and chronic psychiatric patients, consultation and hospitalisation

Capacity: 20 places


P.O. Box 612 - KigomaContact: Bro. Emmanuel Majaliwae-mail: [email protected]

The only psychiatric service for the whole Kigoma-region in Tanzania

Date of foundation : 13 May 2004Target group : acute and chronic patients, with consultation and hospitalisation30 places for chronic carenumber of co-workers: 20

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Tabaco

P.O. Box 40Tabaco City4511 AlbayPhilippines

Contact: Bro. Edcel Lacierdae-mail: [email protected]

The focus is on society-directed rehabilitation of abandoned and long-term psychiatric patients, as well as the formation of health care workers active in rehabilitation.

REhABILITATION CENTRE hOLy fACE

Philippines

GingoogSAINT DymPhNA REhABILITATION CENTRE philippines

182, Kanke Road - Ranchi 834008IndiaContact: Bro. George Tirkeye-mail: [email protected]

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Brgy. Agay ayan Gingoog City, PhilippinesContact: Bro. manuel Baloyoe-mail: [email protected]

Date of foundation : 2003, taken over by the Brothers of Charity in 2014Target group : chronic psychiatric patientsCapacity 30 places Number of co-workers: 10

Bao LocBAO LOC REhABILITATION CENTRE

vietnam

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Target group : chronic psychiatric patientsCapacity: 10 places


A small-scaled rehabilitation house for chronic psychiatric patients, the first step in mental health care for the Brothers of Charity in Vietnam

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Target group : chronic psychiatric patientsCapacity: 10 places


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Brothers of CharityBrothers of Charityvia Giambattista Pagano 3500167 Roma - ItalyTel. *39-06-660.49.01 E-mail: [email protected]

The Brothers of Charity have an official international NGO for development cooperation called “fracarita International”. It provides support to the mental health care services, schools and centres for persons with a disability in Latin America, Af-rica and Asia. for more information on this NGO (including its regional offices) and how to support, please visit the website: www.fracarita-international.org.

The Brothers of Charity have an official international NGO for development cooperation called “fracarita International”. It provides support to the mental health care services, schools and centres for persons with a disability in Latin America, Africa and Asia. for more information on this NGO (includ-ing its regional offices) and how to support, please visit the website: www.fracarita-international.org.

DONATIONS TO fRACARITA INTERNATIONAL:IBAN: BE59 7370 2766 2726BIC: KREDBEBBBoeveriestraat 14, 8000 Brugge, Belgium

Social projects of the Brothers of Charity: mental health care

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