LIBREVILLE, October 6, 2024 (AGP) – As a prelude to World Mental Health Day, celebrated around the world on October 10 each year, the Torrent Church, with the support of the Ministry of Health, launched this Sunday, October 6, in Libreville, the Seed of Love caravan, which aims to fight against all forms of rejection, but also to perform an act of love towards wandering mentally ill people, in the presence of the Minister of Health, Adrien Mougougou, we noticed.
“He too is my neighbor”, it is under this theme that the teams of the Seed of Love caravan will travel, for a week, the streets of Greater Libreville to meet people suffering from mental disorders, in order to bring them support, but also to share a meal with them on the occasion of Mental Health Day.
For the Reverend Louis Gaspard Obiang, leader of the Central Church of Torrent, “it is a question of engaging the community, more, to take a look at its wandering mentally ill people, whom we see without seeing them, whom we look at without them. look”.
This Mental Health Week, organized by the Matsa program (Show love to all without apprehension) of the Torrent Church, will see, from this Monday, October 7, 18 teams from the caravan on the ground, in contact with many people with mental illnesses. Moments of sharing around hot meals as well as the collection of some information to find, if possible, their families with a view to integration into reception centers.
By thanking the Christian community of the Central Church of Torrent for this humanist gesture that it has been making for several years, Professor Adrien Mougougou, Minister of Health, indicated that “it is for this reason that I decided to come alongside them this morning, so that together we can join hands to reach out to these compatriots who need love so much, who need us so much.”
From this Monday 7 and until October 12, field activities will take place. In addition to meeting the sick, the caravans will meet the families of these people as well as religious leaders, before the celebration of the day itself, Friday October 11 at the Melen psychiatric hospital.
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