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And the winners are...

Mental Health Battle Awards - April 7th 2010

Global Initiative on Psychiatry, HealthNet TPO and Estuar joined forces to raise awareness on mental health as an important developmental aid issue. With support of the European Commission and NCDO the Mental Health Battle 2009-2010 took place in four European countries: Bulgaria, Lithuania, The Netherlands and Romania. Students and mental health professionals were invited to enter the Mental Health Battle, and write a paper with inventive solutions for dilemma's concerning mental health in developing countries. The two winning teams will visit the HealthNet TPO mental health programme in Burundi in September 2010.

On April 7th the winners of the Mental Health Battle were announced at an afternoon conference in Amersfoort. We were vey happy that Florence Baingana, chair of the jury, was present to announce the winners.  
Educationists in Balance was the best Dutch team and Actor from Romania was the best team in the second category (please note that team Actor is referred to as 'Improving Mental Health' in the video).
To view the jury report or the essays please click on one of the links at the bottom of this page. For more information about the project please click here. 

In part 1 Florence Baingana announces who the winner is of the category Romania, Bulgaria and Lithuania (referred to as 'other'). In part 2 she makes a phone call to Romania to inform the winning team that they were first. Then she announces who won the battle in the Dutch category,


part 2


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