In cities and towns across Nigeria, thousands of people battling mental health crises wander the streets - homeless, untreated, and forgotten. Without access to care, shelter, or medical support, they scavenge for survival amid indifference.
Enter Ebuka Obi, a determined rescuer on a personal mission to change that. Armed with compassion and grit, he’s pulling these vulnerable souls off the streets, one life at a time, offering the hope they’ve long been denied.
Specifically and in response to this growing concern, Seraphic Homes Foundation, established by Evangelist Ebuka Obi, the Spiritual Director of Zion Prayer Movement Outreach, built a Psychiatric Hospital in Aguleri, Anambra State, to take mentally challenged individuals off the streets and provide them free comprehensive psychiatric care and rehabilitation.
The foundation, according to its promoters, has been rescuing mentally challenged individuals from the streets of Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Abia and Ebonyi, with a plan to expand the mission across all six geopolitical zones in Nigeria.
The mentally challenged individuals are taken to Seraphic Psychiatric Hospital where comprehensive medical care, feeding, accommodation and social rehabilitation are provided free of charge to them, a press statement said.
So far, more than twenty mentally challenged individuals have been rescued from various parts of Anambra and Imo states, with the initiative gradually expanding its reach into other southeastern states, including Enugu and Ebonyi, and even parts of the South-South region, Newsmart gathered.
The statement also explains that through continued outreach and medical intervention, the initiative seeks to address untreated mental health conditions while restoring dignity and hope to some of the most vulnerable members of society.
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