The organization runs a mental health rehabilitation institution or half way home called Tirivanhu Therapeutic Centre in Ruwa about 30 kilometres out of Harare off the Harare-Mutare Highway. The name Tirivanhu is a Shona word which translates “We are people” and it came out of realisation that persons with mental health conditions, as is often with other impairments, are usually identified by their condition thereby clouding out the fact that the first and fundamental issue that of being a person with the condition coming in second.

The centre has a shared capacity to take up to 26 clients at a time. Here, clients are admitted for a maximum period of 18 months while their recovery process is carefully monitored by an enthusiastic team that includes a clinical psychiatrist, a social worker and other staff members who include former clients.

The admission process is done according to health protocols set by the Ministry of Health and Child Care and is currently limited to persons above 18 years. These come from the formal referral systems such as Hospitals, Prison Services and the department of Social Welfare.

To date, more than 1200 people have gone through the Centre and were successfully reintegrated back into their families and  communities where they are taking up formal and informal employment .

The major elements of this service are follows:

• Monitored administration of medication as well as facilitation of clients’ medical reviews at medical institutions
• Life skills training focusing on horticulture and animal husbandry. The rehabilitation centre sits on thirty nine hectares of land of which at least twenty hectares are arable. In spite of the challenges related to capacity utilization, the organization is engaged in farming activities as well as the rearing of livestock such as cattle, rabbits and sheep.
• Family reunion programmes for those clients whose relationships would have disintegrated during times of acute illness. Relationships disruptions occur due to a number of factors including acts that the clients would have done during their time of illness as well as unfounded stigma and beliefs surrounding the source, cause or treatment of the illness.

We also work with affiliate organisations offering similar services such as Tariro Halfway Homes in Glenview (Harare Province) and Beatrice (Mashonaland East Province), Rukariro Rehabilitation Centre in Odzi (Manicaland Province) and Queen of Peace Rehabilitation and Crisis Support Centre in Gweru (Midlands Province).