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Ahadi Mental Health

Mental health support that reaches young people, and stays.

Digital access, frontline care, and public systems working as one.

Ahadi Mental Health connects young people to care, builds the frontline capacity to deliver it, and integrates both into public health systems for lasting support.

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What we do

One system, built so support reaches young people and lasts.

Three interconnected barriers stand between young people and care: access and affordability, stigma and delayed care-seeking, and systems that don't sustain support.

Ahadi is built to address all three.

The three pillars

Ahadi works across three interconnected pillars, each one essential, all three working together.

1
Digital Access & Delivery Infrastructure
Meeting young people where they are.
The channels and tools that make support reachable, app, SMS, and helpline, so it is easier to reach out and be connected quickly.
2
Frontline Capacity & Community Delivery
Care delivered by people, powered by ahadi platforms.
Building the capacity of people already in young people’s lives, teachers, health workers, peer supporters, to notice early and support well.
3
Public Systems Integration & Ownership
Built to last within the systems that serve young people.
Working with governments so support is owned, financed, and supervised publicly, not a parallel programme that disappears.

How the system works

Four steps, in order, from the moment a young person reaches out to the follow-up that keeps them held.

  1. 01
    Reach out
    A young person reaches out, through the app, SMS, or helpline, or is noticed early by someone trained to see the signs.
  2. 02
    Screen & connect
    They are screened and connected to the right kind of support for what they are going through, fast.
  3. 03
    Get support
    Care is delivered by trained people, counsellors, peer supporters, and health workers in their community.
  4. 04
    Follow up
    Support does not end at first contact. Follow-up keeps every young person held until they are steady.
Governments deliver. Ahadi enables.

For a more detailed overview of Ahadi's strategy, district model, and long-term vision, download our strategic overview.

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Who we serve.

Young people aged 15 to 25 looking for support, governments building lasting public systems, and organizations adding mental health support to what they already deliver.

For young people
You don't have to figure it out alone.

Talk to someone the same day through the app, a free call to 199, or a text to 15061. Book a session when you are ready for more.

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For governments & public institutions
Build youth mental health into public systems.

We work with ministries, local governments, schools, universities and health systems to embed support into structures that already exist, and to build toward government ownership.

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For organisations & employers
Bring Ahadi's model into what you already deliver.

Social enterprises, NGOs, schools, employers and digital health platforms can license Ahadi CareLink, Ahadi Service Access and The Ahadi Blueprint, with the dashboards behind them.

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Impact snapshot

A model built and proven in Tanzania, ready to scale.

young people reached
1.1M+young people reached
total helpline users
153,000+total helpline users
cases resolved
150,000+cases resolved
frontline responders trained
104+frontline responders trained
MoU with MoH and PMO-RALG
SignedMoU with MoH and PMO-RALG

Clinical outcomes

Measured with validated instruments, not self-reported satisfaction.

88.5%
wellbeing improvement rate
WHO-5
81%
stigma reduction
CAMI scale
77.8%
reduction in anxiety
GAD-7
76%
reduction in depression
PHQ-9

Behind every number is a young person who reached out and got a response.

“When I sent that first message, I didn't expect anyone to answer. Someone did, the same day.”

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Our promise

Ahadi is the Swahili word for promise. Our promise is simple: no young person should face mental health challenges alone, and support should be within reach before crisis hits.

That is what we are building. And we would love for you to be part of it.

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