Peer community
Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative (MANI)
Magodo, Lagos, Nigeria
Lagos-headquartered, youth-run mental-health network founded in 2015 by Dr Victor Ugo after his own depression diagnosis. Runs free counselling, a helpline, and mental-health training across 18 chapters and reports direct support to over 70,000 people.
- Focus
- Mad Pride and psychiatric survivors
- Leadership
- Mixed leadership
- Where
- In person and online
- Languages
- English
- Since
- 2015
Visit mentallyaware.org (opens in a new tab)
Verified 2026-09-09 from mentallyaware.org. Added 2026-09-09 by the editorial team.
Note: Describes itself as 'youth-run and youth-focused'; largest youth mental-health network in West Africa per its own materials. Won a 2017 Nelson Mandela-Graca Machel Innovation Award.
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