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Kuumba mentoring program is looking for mentees interested in mental health with a focus on young people. If interested, email asw@africasocialwork.net. Details available here.

From Our Blog

AU Protocol on Disability

Blogger: Kudzai Mwapaura

Can you advocate your country to sign and ratified the Protocol? By November 2023, only 10 countries had ratified the protocol, see list here. Five (5) more countries are required for the protocol to come into force. Countries that ratified by September 2023 were:

1. Angola
2. Burundi
3. Cameroon
4. Kenya
5. Mali
6. ...Click here to go to the blog post.

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The African Union head quarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. One of the pending policies to be ratified is the Protocol on Disability, full name, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa.

Editorial and Creative Board of Owia Bulletin

Kudzai Mwapaura, Lecturer and Fieldwork Coordinator, Department of Social Work, Women’s University in Africa, Zimbabwe

 Dr Agness C Tembo, Course/Stream Coordinator Postgraduate Advanced Studies Intensive Care Nursing, Lecturer intensive and Critical Care, University of Sydney, Australia

Yuvan Sankar, MSW (Community Development), India

Willard Muntanga, Master in Disaster Risk and Livelihoods Studies, Zimbabwe

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