Mental Health Awareness: The importance of relationships
The importance of relationships has been highlighted by a survey released by the Mental Health Foundation. The research showed that more people regard maintaining healthy relationships as the most important factor to their wellbeing. It pointed to good-quality...
What is intellectual disability?
In South Africa, March is nationally recognised as Intellectual Disability Awareness Month. Four in every hundred people in South Africa are affected by intellectual disability. The Cape Mental Health Society says, “People respond very differently to the words...
Climb Any Mountain is now on eBay!
Climb Any Mountain is delighted to announce that it’s now part of the eBay for Charity programme. From cameras to clothes, candles to beauty products, the Climb Any Mountain eBay shop has so much on offer. Proceeds of sold items are helping us to transform what is...
Better NHS Mental Health Care Service by 2020/1
The NHS in England has committed to better mental health care across the NHS, pledging to help more than a million extra people and investing more than a billion pounds a year by 2020/21. It is making the move in response to the final report of an independent task...
A snapshot of our project
Services are not just beds, they are not simply houses, though having a roof available is vitally important. Services must be grasped as something other than bricks and mortar, or a place ‘to put the problem’.[bctt tweet=”Support us. Help us make a change! Build...
Over the past 30 years or so, the UK has significantly improved the standard of care for people with learning disability by moving away from large institutions to smaller person-centred community-based services. These services have enabled residents to live more independently and to make significant improvements in their physical and psychological health.
At Climb Any Mountain, we are driven by our passionate belief that people with an intellectual disability and mental illness should have equal rights and opportunities in society.
We are proud of the ground we’ve taken in transforming the services available for people with intellectual disability and mental illness within and across South Africa.
We’re now preparing for the second home to open—a 6-bedroom home, this time exclusively for women. Help us furnish this house to make it a home. 100% of donations go directly towards purchasing the items listed.