HUMURA PROJECT

In Rwanda, 24.8% suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, 15% are living with depression and 58% have anxiety symptoms. In Rwanda, rates of mental stress are still elevating because covid-19 has raised concerns about the mental health problems among children generation especially adolescents. Covid19 measures such as limiting social gatherings, closing schools and lockdown. All of this expose adolescents to psychological disorders. And Rwanda have few mental health professionals and health facilities for formal consultations.

HUMURA is tech enabled Project which deliver psychotherapy services remotely. Our platform will allow virtual and in person interaction between clients and psychotherapist through chat, sss code, phone calls, social media ,video and in person services. We will provide counselling, psychotherapy, group therapy, community outreach. We will provide treatment service for either adults or adolescent experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, panic disorder and more. We will have web/app platform to provide our services to improve the quality of life of those living with emotional and mental health problems. Our platform is privacy sensitive and we will be able to serve those who still have stigma to seek mental health services. We will emphasize on listening patient, analyzing present issues, analyzing influence of the past on the present, comforting clients, diagnose mental health conditions, reduce symptoms of mental illness, helping clients understand themselves and other people and teaching client how effectively resolve emotional, relational and professional conflicts.

Our client will be patients with mental issue who need psychological support and treatment with focus to youth and adolescent. This will be a live clinical session with single or group of patient conducted via video teleconference, email, online chat, messaging and o toll free number. HUMURA Project will help those who are struggling in the world. We will help them to deal with specific issues like consequences of Covid-19, loss of a job, divorce among others. We will help people to get back on their feet and feel empowered and stronger than ever. Our service will help people to come up on their great opportunities and lead them to a healthy, happy, and normal life. Our service will also focus on adolescences and help them in difficult life situations such as school stress and drug addiction. HUMURA Project will make a profound impact on the lives of individuals, families facing the effect of 1994 genocide against Tutsi. This service will help individuals, groups, organization and society optimize wellbeing. Our psychotherapy will help individuals explore moods and behaviors, provide fresh perspective and offer a better understanding of emotions. This will improve mood, treat illness, improve communication and relationship.

Both of us are health care provider with experience in clinical practices and patients care. We meet with number of patients with mental health conditions who delayed consultation addressing to bad spirit or avoiding stigma in community. With regards to few numbers’ psychotherapist, a proper follow up is not ensured. That’s why we want to harness all our experience and clinical background to create a platform to help everyone in need remotely. 

This program will help us to get training and mentorship program because better training leads to better processes and more efficient work. The most important is being mentored about what we will be running that time. In order to be more successful in maintaining and managing Humura Project. 

Our client will be patients with mental issue who need psychological support and treatment with focus to youth and adolescent. We will harness power of digital marketing to reach our customers as well us traditional adverts. We will hold community outreach and social media to raise awareness on mental health condition as well as marketing our services. 

Next year we will reach 40,000 patients with mental health issues.

Next five years over 200,000 people with mental health disorders will be facilitated by our organization.

We will achieve this by allowing free download of our mobile application to the clients.

We will achieve this by marketing our service through different social media and visiting secondary schools in Rwanda. 

1.Decreased number of people with mental health problems. We will know by collecting secondary data.

2.Decreased number of suicides. We will know by visiting Rwanda investigation bureau.

3. Increased number of people with mental health awareness. We will interview and questionaire.

4. Increased number of subscribers on our platform. This will be visible in our setting.

1.Activities:

Psychotherapy, Counseling and advices on mental health awareness.

Indicators: increase number of clients/patients getting our service.

Increase number of subscriptions on our platform.  

Verification: Evaluation and monitoring.

2.Output:

Decrease of number of mental health patients.

Decrease of suicidal.

Decrease of drug abuse. 

-Indicators: -%of individuals with mental health disorders decreased.  

Percentage of drug abuse and suicidal decrease.

-Verification:-E-mailing with questionnaire to our subscribers

3. Long term Outcome

Sustainable health and wealth of population.

Population with mental health awareness.

-Indicators

% of healthy population increase.

No stigma among population.

-Verification:

Collecting data in Rwanda Demographic and health Survey.

HUMURA is tech enabled Project which deliver psychotherapy services remotely. We will be using mobile application designed to provide Spychotherapy counseling to everyone in need of mental health support. 

This application will increase mental health awareness to everyone accessing it.

BAHO NEZA is a non profit, non governmental organization that work on raising mental health among individuals with mental health disorders.

This will be a live clinical session with single or group of patient conducted via mobile application, video teleconference, email, online chat, messaging and o toll free number. HUMURA Project will help those who are struggling in the world. We will help them to deal with specific issues like consequences of Covid-19, loss of a job, divorce among others. We will help people to get back on their feet and feel empowered and stronger than ever. Our service will help people to come up on their great opportunities and lead them to a healthy, happy, and normal life. Our service will also focus on adolescences and help them in difficult life situations such as school stress and drug addiction. HUMURA Project will make a profound impact on the lives of individuals, families facing the effect of 1994 genocide against Tutsi. This service will help individuals, groups, organization and society optimize wellbeing. Our psychotherapy will help individuals explore moods and behaviors, provide fresh perspective and offer a better understanding of emotions. This will improve mood, treat illness, improve communication and relationship.

Humura Project will make money by charging certain amount from our clients on psychotherapy consultation given. Our pricing will be cheap and affordable to many Rwandans. We will discuss with insurance for coverage as well. Price will depend on number of factors including type of therapy, therapist, number of sessions and more. There will be options of monthly or yearly subscription since many mental illnesses are chronic condition. Part of income will be used to expand our services and enhancing mental health awareness in community. As we are at growth stage,  we will keep looking for other grants to grow our organization and serve large number of people.

UpTo now we have invested 2000$ in our project.

We have more than 50 mental health YouTube videos monetized and our channel now generate income.

We have received fund from Olihealth magazine and Rwanda Village community Promoters.