SAFA Counselling Centre

By Arrenga Nadaraja and Yomal Senerath-Yapa   For Ameena Mustapha and her team at the SAFA Counselling Centre in Dehiwela, it was one more step towards better mental health care for women when they conducted, last month, a mental wellbeing survey of married working women in Colombo and the suburbs. The online survey was done with 68 women and the …

Why the name Safa? Safa means peace, we named it because it provides a safe haven for people who are disturbed. Ameena Faiz Mustapha President and senior counsellor said “our projects are open to all communities and faiths””We are focused on bringing ease and solace to those in distress and in need . At the inception we did a housing …

Incidents of domestic violence, harassment and abuse were experienced by women during the pandemic period. However, even before the pandemic, women in underserved settlements have faced the brunt of poverty. As a means of bridging financial disparities between men and women, the Vocational Training Centre at the Sri Lanka Muslim Women’s Conference (SLMWC) has assisted many such women to face …

World Mental Health Day;   Today is World Mental Health Day and it comes amid the COVID-19 pandemic which has drastically affected the lives of people all over the world. The year 2020 has been filled with challenges due to COVID-19 for everyone. Some have been affected more. They include health-care workers who go to work fearing contagion, children who …