Mission Statement

Psychiatric users and survivors have traditionally been spoken for by the Mental Health Care System. Not having a voice, our opinions and rights are very often disregarded and silenced. Having no organisation in South Africa to address and remedy this situation, there was a need to create an effective platform to achieve this objective. This organisation is founded to enable users and survivors to empower themselves and to be an independent representative voice. Users and survivors of psychiatry in South Africa need to reclaim their dignity using the principles of self help, the belief in recovery and healing of the spirit, peer support and challenging common cultural constructions of “mental illness” and abuses within the Mental Health Care System.