An awareness-raising campaign organised by the Well-Being For All platform has just reached people in the West region.

According to the World Health Organization, t mental disorders that manifest themselves in different ways. They are generally characterised by an abnormal pattern of thinking, feeling, behaving and relating to others. The latter include depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychoses, dementia, intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism.

In the West region for instance, many people suffer from these disorders. Last Friday November 17, the Welbeing For All (Wefa) platform and its partners, Jeunesse en difficulté (JED), CRIMO and EDUC-REHAB, organised an awareness-raising campaign on neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) in the town of Bafoussam.

The campaign kicked off with a conference and training session on the theme: “Scientific advances in the management of NDD”.

According to Dr babilama Lin Serge, a psychomotrician and lecturer, the aim of the campaign is to give hope to parents of children with NDD: “As a specialist, the truth is that we see children with special needs every day. We have consultations with children who are struggling and whose parents are worried about how they are developing, particularly in terms of speech and motor skills. We felt it was important to take a step to raise awareness, to say that these difficulties are not the result of witchcraft or magic. You can give your difficulties a name and you can start taking responsibility for it, especially if you start doing this when you are young. Many people today think that having a disability means that you are hollow. However, it’s important to realise that with care, and especially with medical progress on the treatment of these diseases, especially with what we’ve just been talking about, human stem cell therapy, making it possible to repair and regenerate damaged nerve cells. That’s the hope we’re giving parents”.