By Jocelyn Bonner | Project Leader
Dear Friends,
I'm honored to let you know that the first 3 months of the project are going well. The irrigation system is in. We are facing a bit of a deadline to get the well in before the end of the rainy season this fall. In the bigger scheme of things, the cashew farm will provide skills that recovered patients can take with them and the cashews will increase the nutritional value of the food prepared at Association Saint-Camille (ASC). For an extra bonus for self-sufficiency - any surplus can be sold and help defray patient care costs at ASC. Recovering patients can help their families by being gainfully employed and simultaneously giving back to ASC. We hear many stories of gratitude about the care they receive at ASC.
On an even larger scale, ASC founder, Gregoire Ahongbonon, was the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association 2022 Chester M. Pierce Human Rights Award in May. To have his work recognized by a medical association of this stature we hope will put ASC in a more prominent position to end stigma and chaining of the mentally ill in West Africa and beyond. In the photograph you will see Gregoire asking "why?" about removing these chains from someone.
Thank you for your gifts and for being a part of the journey with Gregoire and his team of peer counselors, advocates and families in this important work.
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