Psychosocial Disability Rights Project

ABOUT

A small, hard-working consulting firm based in South Africa. Established in 2010, we hit the ground running with our first project to design a brochure for the only independent psychosocial disability rights self representative organization. Since then we have experienced huge growth, going from strength to strength to strength, taking on and successfully managing the proposal writing, implementation and reporting of advocacy projects at an African and International level

Annie Robb identifies as living with a psychosocial disability and was a founding member of The Ubuntu Centre, South Africa's first independent DPO for people with psychosocial disabilities.

After being institutionalized in a psychiatric institution, she completed her post graduate studies in 2009 at the University of the Western Cape where her thesis, A Sentience Explored, was well received.

Frustrated at the dominance of medical professionals speaking for and moulding the discourse around psychiatry and mental health, she set about to change this by forming a consultancy to do the work exclusively by users and survivors and people with psychosocial disabilties. Most of this work has been done on a volunteer basis and funding has also been accessed that impacted positively on promoting the voices of people with psychosocial disabilities. Annie's specialities are proposal writing, strategy formulation, workshop design and delivery, report writing and speech writing. She is dedicated to lifting the silence out of the shadows of ignorance and oppression.

Vacancy - Applications can be sent to psychrightssa@gmail.com

Please do not worry about cv but tell us why you have a passion for for global change in what is called the "mental health care system".

Please give us a vision if you were to be employed of how you would go about bringing change. Do not forget to tells us what reasonable accommodation you will need so that we can factor this into our communications with you.

........are academics and DPO specialists with many years experiece working with international mechanisms such as the United Nations and African Union and they reserve the right to not be public until requests for their details are sent.

1:500 people in Southern Africa visit tradition healers when experiencing a crisis, mental disturbance or what western medicine calls "mental illness".

It is estimated that 70% or more African families and individuals will visit a Sangoma for healing and guidance in these times. Luyanda is a knower and diviner and works with the Psychosocial Disability Rights Project to promote the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities to have full autonomy over their decisions in life, to confront the: continuing colonization of the African Continent to Western Medicine, gobal capitalization, the pharmaggedon of the pharmaceutical industry, to make known the rich and deep understandings of madness in indigenous culture and to preserve this history.