Gideon explains a point about the project.




Reflecting on how he finally settled on mental health he had this recollection. “I wrote down ten problems in Ghana I want to work on to create a social impact. I finally decided to submit a proposal for an in-school educational program to create awareness and to end the stigma surrounding mental health. Growing up in Ghana, mental health meant a man walking around naked in the streets with filthy clothes. However, in Ghana, a country of about 27 million people the World Health Organization records that 650,000 people suffer from severe mental disorders and 2,106,000 people suffer from a moderate to mild disorder. The treatment gap is a 98% of the total population expected to have a mental disorder. But yet, the government invests less than 1% of the health budget into mental health.”