#mental-health

🇦🇹 Austria · Verein Amazone

Amazone runs Vorarlberg's dedicated girls' center and free counseling line for girls, young women and gender-diverse youth aged 10 to 25, at a time when demand for support keeps climbing.

🇺🇸 United States · FORCE BLUE

Retired Special Operations veterans trade combat missions for coral restoration dives, finding a new sense of purpose while helping rebuild America's reefs.

🇦🇹 Austria · HEMAYAT - Betreuungszentrum für Folter- und Kriegsüberlebende

Since 1995, Hemayat has offered free interpreter-supported psychotherapy in Vienna to survivors of torture and war, one of the few services of its kind in Austria.

🇺🇸 United States · Land Together

Formerly the Insight Garden Program, this nonprofit teaches incarcerated Californians permaculture and ecological literacy, cutting three-year reincarceration to a fraction of the state average.

🇿🇦 South Africa · MusicWorks

Registered music therapists turn marimba bands, choirs and drumming circles into psychosocial support for children traumatised by violence and neglect on Cape Town's Cape Flats.

🇨🇰 Cook Islands · Punanga Turuturu Itivaine (PTI)

The Cook Islands' only dedicated women's counselling centre has spent three decades showing up when families are in crisis.

🇨🇦 Canada · Gathering Voices Society

Gathering Voices Society partners with Yunesit'in and Xeni Gwet'in First Nations to bring seasonal cultural burning back to the Tsilhqot'in Chilcotin region of British Columbia, one of the fastest-warming, most fire-prone landscapes in Canada.

🇨🇦 Canada · Sole Food Street Farms (Cultivate Canada Society)

Vacant, often contaminated lots in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside became paid urban farmland for people rebuilding their lives after addiction, homelessness or mental illness.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Surfers Not Street Children

A Durban charity that pulls vulnerable street children into surf clubs, mentorship and life-skills programs, turning some of them into surf coaches, lifeguards and professional surfers.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Trust Links

Seven community gardens across Essex use hands-in-the-soil horticulture as frontline mental health support for thousands of people a year.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Waves for Change

Surf therapy nonprofit using ocean-based mentorship to support youth mental health in South Africa's coastal townships.

🇦🇺 Australia · Waves of Wellness Foundation

Waves of Wellness pairs group cognitive behavioural therapy with free surf lessons to help Australians rebuild their mental health in the ocean.