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She Writes Woman

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

Lagos-based mental-health advocacy organisation founded by Hauwa Ojeifo in 2016, running a 24-hour toll-free helpline staffed by therapists and counsellors and campaigning on mental-health rights and policy under the mantra 'Nothing about us without us.'

Focus
Mad Pride and psychiatric survivors
Leadership
Mixed leadership
Where
In person and online
Languages
English
Since
2016

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Verified 2026-09-09 from shewriteswoman.org. Added 2026-09-09 by the editorial team.

Note: Founder has publicly discussed her own mental-health diagnosis as a motivation; the organisation is not explicitly self-described as survivor-led, so leadership is marked 'mixed' rather than 'nd-led'.

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