South African Federation for Mental Health Fundraiser

The South African Federation for Mental Health (SAFMH) is a national non-governmental organisation founded in 1920. It was originally called The South African National Council for Mental Hygiene and the Care of the Feeble-Minded. It has changed its name several times through the years, eventually settling on the South African Federation for Mental Health in 1990. 

Since its humble beginnings, SAFMH has played an essential role as an advocacy body, promoting community mental health care and deinstitutionalisation and fighting for the rights of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities. Today, SAFMH is the largest national mental health federation in South Africa, with the national office situated in Johannesburg and 17 constituent bodies [known as Mental Health Societies] located in all nine provinces. 

While SAFMH works at a strategic level with government and other national and international mental health stakeholders and partners to raise awareness of mental health and human rights and to advocate for improved resourcing of mental health, the Mental...