Year 2024 Brief for Partners.

Published on Jan 06, 2025

Our Mission & Activities

Hope Restoration and Health Initiative, is a not-for-profit NGO that supports people with severe mental health conditions and their caregivers in the transition from crisis to recovery.
We support individuals with severe mental health conditions, who are discharged from hospital with no suitable home to return to. We also sponsor hospital treatment of homeless mentally ill persons.
Through our residential centre, Hope Resource, we support their recovery journey and help them transition back into their community. Our operations commenced in September, 2020, with the goal of promoting recovery, preventing homelessness, and restoring hope in mental health care.

Programme Impact

We have so far supported over 40 residents at Hope Resource with 12 months average stay (range 1- 49 months), who have maintained stable mental health, with good quality of life and remarkable degree of community integration. 17 residents have transitioned back into the community, living independently or with family members with our ongoing floating support. We have fully sponsored the hospital admission of 7 homeless patients from the street into the Neuropsychiatric hospital Aro. The last was discharged in December, with 5 now resident at Hope Resource because traced family members are unwilling or do not have the means to provide needed support for their recovery and reintegration in the community.
We entered the year with 18 residents; 5 had moved back into the community while 5 new residents joined us. Residents are engaged in preferred self improvement activities in-house and in the community.

Our income and expenditures:
• Our sources of income in 2024 is as follows: Support by patients’ family members (54.56%); Donations from individual partners and organisations (44.33%); Income generating projects (1.1%).
• 25% of our total expentures in 2024 was however funded by a surplus of fund from the 2023 Ember Mental Health grant for the Homeless patients intervention, the hospitalisation phase of which was concluded in December.

Our Future Goals

We plan to expand our community support through rented supported flats; establish enterprise projects for livelihoods empowerment of residents & corporate financial sustainability, and replicate the programme in other cities and states of the country. We intend to pick more homeless mentally ill patients from the street this year for hospital care and community reintegration subject to availability of funds.

We are indeed very grateful for your continued support & partnership in the pursuit of our mission to support recovery, prevent homelsness and restore hope in mental health care.

Yours sincerely
Dr Timothy Adebowale (Project Director)