Apé Withthi
Apé Withthi is a quarterly newsletter for mentally ill people, their carers and communities, published by the Sri Lankan programme.
Apé Withthi describes the role of community volunteers and celebrates their achievements in changing the lives of mentally ill people. Apé Withthi is published in local languages. The latest issue has been published in both Sinhala & Tamil.
How the young lives get misled through the media , teenage marriages, relationships between youth and parents and addiction to drugs are the topics that we address. Volunteers who are in Ape withthi writers circle contributed in writing articles.
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The 8th issue of Ape withthi news letter has been published. This time the theme is “Decentralising Mental health services” with the slogan “Lets take mental health service to the community” These are the areas we have focussed on. • Review of current Mental Health policy • Effectiveness of BasicNeeds Community Mental Health Development Program for decentralising Mental Health Services. • Issues and problems faced by the Community in Mental Health Services. • Creating awareness among the all the stakeholders on the available mental Health services. Twenty four volunteers representing six partner organisations contributed by writing articles. They talk of the impact of the Community Mental Health Development programme for decentralising mental health services. The news letter was printed in both Sinhala and Tamil languages and we expect this will be a bridge to create communal harmony on both the South and North of the Country. Download issue 8 of Apé Withthi in Sinhala >> (2 MB) Download issue 8 of Apé Withthi in Tamil >> (2 MB)
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The seventh issue of Ape withthi Newsletter has been published. The theme of this issue is “War and Mental Health” with the slogan “The human beings who lost the habitat”. In this issue we try to build up communal harmony between Tamil and Sinhala people by preparing a stage to share their war experiences. For the first time we published the same issue in Tamil Language hoping to distribute among the Tamil community who are involved in our program. Most of the writers to this paper are volunteers of the community mental health Development programme. While the volunteers of “Wakarai” and “Kebithigollawa” who are directly being affected by war share their experiences Sothern volunteers shared how the war affects their lives. |
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The theme of the second issue of Ape withthi is “Youth and Mental Health” with the slogan “Some space for us under the sky”. We tried to address a few common problems which relate to youth’s life under stress, worries and ultimately that led to the path of destroying their whole lives. One of the main topics we talk about is how they become violated. This article is based on the incident of Cho Seung – Hui student of Virginia University who killed thirty students. Download issue 2 of Apé Withthi >> (1.5 MB)
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The first edition focused on volunteers in the Sri Lankan programme. Defined as an entrepreneurial volunteer service, there are now over 1250 volunteers in the Sri Lankan programme, 150 of them being trained up to be animators. Download issue 1 of Apé Withthi >> (980 KB) |
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Vanee Surendranathan, Programme Manager
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