Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation

11/10/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EUNICE 🎂🎉

Happy birthday, Edson Ibukunoluwa Eunice, our Yoruba baby 😅

Today, we celebrate you and appreciate all your hard work, dedication, and commitment to the organisation. Thank you for the beautiful impact you continue to make. 🥰

As you step into this new age, may your days be filled with laughter, joy, peace, and beautiful moments. May you never know a better yesterday, and may your path shine brighter and brighter unto the perfect day ✨

We see you.
We love you. ❤️
We celebrate you. 🥳

With love,
All of us at Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation (CALMHAF). 💙

11/10/2026

INVESTING IN THE NEXT GENERATION OF WOMEN
Today we celebrate every girl—her dreams, her voice, her strength, and her right to a safe, educated, and healthy future. At CALMHAF, we believe mental well-being is a fundamental right, and investing in girls means building their emotional resilience so they can thrive no matter the challenges.

Through our programmes we walk alongside girls and those who support them:

- We equip female students with knowledge and tools on menstrual hygiene, mental health, and preventing sexual and gender-based violence through our Student-to-Student Initiative, empowering them to become change-makers in their schools and communities.
- We help special-needs girls (including those with hearing and speech impairments) express their emotions, dreams, and inner strength through art therapy—turning silence into colour and building confidence.
- Our GlowPulse EQ Bootcamps and emotional intelligence sessions teach children (including girls) resilience, healthy boundaries, emotional validation, and the skills to navigate life’s pressures.
- Through our Mother-to-Mother and Support for Caregivers initiatives, we strengthen the mental health of mothers and caregivers so that girl children grow up in more supportive, resilient homes.

Girls face unique pressures—from societal expectations to barriers like child marriage—but they are also leaders, innovators, and sources of hope. Resilience is not about never facing hardship; it is about having the tools, support, and belief to rise, speak, learn, and lead despite them.

On this International Day of the Girl Child, we reaffirm our commitment to investing in girls’ rights and mental well-being. We encourage every girl to know her worth, protect her dreams, and keep rising. And we call on families, schools, and communities to create the safe, empowering environments every girl deserves.
Together, we end the barriers. Together, we invest in girls. Together, we build resilient futures.
Join us: Share this message, support our programmes, or reach out to partner with us in empowering girls.

10/10/2026

CALMHAF LAUNCHES E-BOOK TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH 👏 🥳

Environmental Exposure and Mental Health:👇

World Mental Health Day is today. You can mind your mood and still be affected by the air, water, smoke, and chemicals around you.

The air, water, smoke, and chemicals around you will not wait. This ebook shows how these exposures add stress to the body and the brain, and why protecting wellbeing starts with where you live and work. Community education, not a cure.

This launch copy goes out now. Pay before the day passes, and we will send it to you.
https://paystack.com/buy/natural-shields-for-mental-health-plant-derived-antio-lykayt

09/10/2026

Your mental health is also on your plate and nutrition has a lot to do with how you feel.

What did you eat today?

Rice and beans. Fruit. Vegetables. Fish. A meal made the way your family has always made it. Ordinary food, and still part of how the body keeps going. Those meals feed the brain, the nervous system, and the immune system, not only the stomach. That is why nutrition belongs in the mental-wellbeing conversation.

Eating well will not stop depression or anxiety on its own. Mental health is shaped by biology, life experience, relationships, and the environment around us. Even so, nourishing the body is one practical way to care for yourself.
The brain is an organ. It needs protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, and fibre to do its work. Food also meets the gut, home to a huge community of microorganisms. Scientists call the link between the two the gut-brain axis. The science is still growing, and it is not simple. It does remind us that body and mind are not separate stories.

There is no miracle ingredient, and no leaf that cures a mental-health condition. A plant can be rich in useful compounds and still not be a treatment. A food you grew up with can be valuable without being called a cure. Nutrition is plainer than that: variety, meals you can keep up, and food as one part of looking after yourself.

Much of that food is already nearby. Beans. Groundnuts. Garden eggs. Leafy vegetables. Fish. Fruits. Whole grains. Scent leaf and other local spices. Familiar, often locally grown, and easy to overlook because we see them so often.

You do not have to rebuild your diet tonight, or spend money you do not have. Add a fruit. Put leafy vegetables on the plate more often. Keep beans or another protein in the week. Reach for fruit more often than an ultra-processed snack.

Next time you decide what to eat, ask one question: what is this meal giving my body?

Our ebook, Natural Shields for Mental Health. Plant-Derived Antioxidants and Protection against Environmental neurotoxicity: Implications for Mental Health, Volume 1, goes further into the fruits, vegetables, herbs, and traditional foods already in Nigerian kitchens: what they contain, and how they can sit inside a healthier routine. Community education from Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation. Not a cure, and not a substitute for professional care.

Get your copy tomorrow. Pay online, and we will send it to you. Purchase link will be shared tomorrow.

Better nourishment can start with a closer look at what has been on your plate all along.

Article written by Chiderah Chidi, a volunteer with Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation, Enugu.

09/10/2026

https://www.copeandlive.foundation/blog/calmhaf-launches-e-book-to-support-mental-health

Catch the natural Nigerian plants that can support your mental health and well-being. Food is one of the ways we nourish the body every day. The nutrients in our meals support the brain, the nervous system, the immune system, and many other processes that keep us functioning. That is why nutritio

08/10/2026

Let’s talk about our Mental Health Booth 📌

The Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation proudly hosted a mental health and wellness booth at the UNMSA Mental Health Day Program on 3rd October 2026.

Our booth offered free mental health assessments and screenings, one-on-one counselling sessions, and a range of wellness and therapeutic games designed for laughter therapy.
We also displayed stress-relief balls, journaling books, and affirmation bands to support students on their mental health journey.

It is always a delight to connect with individuals through our wellness booth at events, and we look forward to introducing even more enhancements and support materials in the future.

07/10/2026

Healthy mothers build healthier families and stronger communities.

Through our Mother to Mother Initiative (MTMI), the Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation reached 25 young mothers in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, on 5 October 2026 at Amike Aba Town Health Centre.

The session combined mental health education and psychosocial support with practical skills.

Participants learned strategies for managing motherhood-related stress, with a focused discussion on postpartum depression: its risks, early warning signs, and effects on both maternal well-being and child development.

They were also trained in bleach and liquid soap production, equipping them with an income-generating skill to better support themselves, their children, and their families.

The mothers left seen, valued, and better prepared to care for their mental health while strengthening their households.

The session was facilitated by Mrs. Rosemary Idika, CALMHAF Ebonyi State Programs Manager, and Kosi Aweke, skills facilitator.

This work reflects our commitment to early childhood development: when mothers are supported, children and communities thrive.

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Council UN Women

06/10/2026

On the 3rd of October 2026, the Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation stood with the University of Nigeria Medical Students’ Association for the first UNMSA Mental Health Day, as an official partner and lead sponsor.

The theme was “Beyond Awareness: Building a Culture of Mental Well-being,” and that was the brief we tried to keep: not only to talk about mental health, but to make support easier to reach.

Thank you, UNMSA, for providing this impactful platform that prioritizes students' mental health and well-being. 👏

05/10/2026

CALMHAF SPONSORS INAUGURAL UNMSA MENTAL HEALTH DAY 👏

On 3rd October 2026, the Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation stood with the University of Nigeria Medical Students’ Association for the first UNMSA Mental Health Day, as an official partner and lead sponsor. The theme was “Beyond Awareness: Building a Culture of Mental Well-being,” and that was the brief we tried to keep: not only to talk about mental health, but to make support easier to reach.

CALMHAF’s co-founder, Mrs. Uzoamaka Nwachukwu, led the team, with Ambassador Ophilia Alete and volunteers Eunice Edson, Judith Izuchukwu, Samuel Igbelina, Mmesoma Nwodo, Ifeoma Nwafor, Chiderah Chidi, Vivian Okochi, and Charles Ozoaka, who gave the day their time and care.

We spoke with the students about not rushing life or youth — that hurry can feed anxiety and depression — and about learning, unlearning, and living in the moment. The team also sat with them, anchoring multiple breakout sessions, on ADHD, PTSD, sleep disorders, and eating disorders, and kept a wellness booth open for free screenings and assessments, stress-relief balls, affirmation handbands, journaling books, and a few games meant to help people exhale.
UNMSA kindly presented us with a plaque of appreciation.

We are grateful. This campus day sits beside years of the same work in schools, worship centres, clinics, hotels, disaster settings, IDP camps, and other communities.

Mental health education is for everybody, and no one has to walk that road alone.

05/10/2026

Mental health support does not begin in a clinic. It begins in the quiet moment someone admits, even to themselves, that they need help. The harder step comes next: knowing where to go, who will listen, and what getting help actually looks like. That step belongs to everybody — the medical student on call, the parent in a worship centre, the family displaced by flood, the guest in a hotel, the survivor in an IDP camp. No title, no age, and no position earns someone the right to struggle alone or secures immunity from the occasional mental health struggles.

For years, the Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation (CALMHAF) has carried that conviction into the places where people already gather. Schools. Worship centres. Medical facilities. Hotels. Flood and disaster sites. IDP camps. Community after community. The work is not optional outreach. It is indispensable. Awareness that stays on a stage never becomes a screening, a conversation, or a way forward. CALMHAF’s continued presence is what turns a message into access.

The inaugural UNMSA Mental Health Day 2026, held on 3rd October 2026 under the theme “Beyond Awareness: Building a Culture of Mental Well-being,” was one more chapter of that same work. As official partner and lead sponsor, CALMHAF did not only help name the problem. It made support reachable — moving the conversation off the podium and into a wellness booth and interactive breakout sessions where students could reflect, connect, and meet evidence-based help face to face.

Team members facilitated multiple breakout sessions, on ADHD, PTSD, sleep disorders, and eating disorders, opening space for questions that plenary talks rarely hold. At the Mental Health Support and Wellness Booth, students received free counseling, screenings and assessments with global tools, along with stress-relief balls, affirmation handbands, and journaling books to carry the work beyond the day. Therapeutic and wellness games gave them room to exhale, laugh, and feel light again.

CALMHAF received a plaque of appreciation as a lead sponsor. More than recognition, it confirmed a simple fit: a foundation already trusted in schools, clinics, camps, and crisis settings was the right partner to show medical students that support has an address. The day ended where CALMHAF’s outreaches have always begun. No one has to navigate their mental health journey alone. Beyond awareness, the task is to build a culture of mental well-being — on campus, and in every community still waiting to be reached.