Projects & Activities

 Prize: The overall winner shall receive a photographic equipment voucher to the value of €250 

 
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This year Mental Health Ireland is introducing a Photographic Project to complement the popular Design A Cover Art Project which MHI has organised annually since 2000 for Post-Primary Schools and Colleges, which aims to create an awareness of mental health through the medium of art.

It is hoped, through this new Photographic Project, to engage a greater number of students in developing awareness of mental health by offering them an alternative medium through which to portray positive mental health.

Open to all students attending Post-primary Schools and Colleges.

The theme of the Project is: Positive Mental Health 

Housing in Ireland has been a bone of contention for centuries. However, housing for the great majority of people in Ireland has improved vastly in the past half century. Various schemes such as government grants, mortgage income tax relief, rental purchase schemes and many others have made it possible for many people to have good accommodation.

There is however a section of our community who live in appalling conditions and some of whom are totally homeless. A considerable number of the people who fall into this category are mentally unwell. Some are in poor accommodation because of their mental illness and in many cases their poor accommodation has exacerbated their mental ill health.

Voluntary Housing Grants from the Department of the Environment offer great potential to voluntary organisations to improve the lot of some of the people who suffer the physical torment and humiliation of living in such conditions.

Many local Mental Health Associations have done great work to support people in their area who are in urgent need of suitable accommodation. This has to be one of our most important contributions to Primary Care for the people we are striving to help.