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An opportunity for a Community Animator in UK Programme

The new BasicNeeds Gloucestershire Community Animation Programme is recruiting to an exciting post. The full-time Community Animator will... more >

Please help Ghana project on GlobalGiving website!

BasicNeeds Ghana has been selected by the GlobalGiving Foundation to participate in its Open Challenge, a fundraising opportunity for nonprofit org... more >

BasicNeeds Launches Mid-Ghana Mental Health Programme

BasicNeeds Ghana, a development advocacy organisation that champions mental health and development efforts in Ghana formally launched its Mid-Ghana... more >

BasicNeeds Uganda makes the transition to independence

BasicNeeds has an ethos of promoting independence and empowerment and, hence, is delighted that in September 2010, the Uganda programme started the pr... more >

BasicNeeds recruits for Karachi Pakistan

We are pleased to say that we will be recruiting a Programme Manager for work in Pa... more >

BasicNeeds launches a UK programme

BasicNeeds and Barnwood Trust are delighted to announce a pioneering new partnership to begin a new programme of work in Gloucestershire, England. Bar... more >

“Highly Commended” at national Charity Awards

BasicNeeds scooped a Highly Commended award at the UK's most prestigious awards scheme, the Charity Awards. The annual ceremony, sponsored by th... more >

Chosen by the new mayor of Leamington Spa

Councillor Alan Wilkinson, inaugurated as mayor of Leamington Spa on 21st May, has chosen BasicNeeds as one of his three official charities for his ye... more >

Ugandans with Mental Illness Learn to Fit In

In developing countries, even when people with mental illness receive medical treatment, they often have trouble fitting into society. For Public R... more >

BasicNeeds Ghana launches a picture of mental health in Ghana

As part of efforts to raise awareness on the hidden realities of the experiences and living conditions of most people with mental disorders and epi... more >

MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY OF GHANA (MEHSOG) AND BasicNeeds Ghana HOLDS MEETING WITH THE MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

BasicNeeds Ghana pursued an initiative to produce a photographic documentary on the everyday life of people with mental illness or epilepsy as part of... more >

Unusual Donation

We have had many generous donations to our charity over the years, but there has never been anything quite so unusual, or so secretive, as this!

A ... more >

Passing away of D M Naidu

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing D M Naidu one of the original founders of BasicNeeds. Naidu was highly respected by every one who me... more >

GOODWILL AMBASSADOR IN KENYA COMMITS TO ENSURING COMPLETION OF NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH POLICY

Kenya's minister for medical services, Hon. Prof. Peter Anyan'g Nyong'o, accepted the role of ambassador for mental health in Kenya. The m... more >