Summary
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Agripsych Beam Ltd is a Kenyan Healthtech company that uses mobile technology to enhance access to mental health services for smallholder farmers affected by climate change. Our focus at AgriPsych Beam Ltd is to ensure that women smallholder farmers have a mental wellbeing safety net after crop or livestock loss or devastation of their agriculture enterprise as a result of climate change.
In many cases, climate adaptation efforts focus on directly on modifications to enterprises/businesses. Smallholder farmers are, for example, taught how to plant climate resilient crops, obtain crop insurance, or find other livelihood alternatives. Interventions rarely centre on farmers and their wellbeing, despite the fact the health of smallholder farmers is essential for businesses to thrive. Agripsych Beam Ltd focuses directly on the psychological wellbeing of entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers.
Target population
We target women smallholder farmers who are predisposed to mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety and trauma related disorders among other mental illnesses.
Partners
We work directly with farmers and also engage with organizations that work with smallholder farmers to provide products and services such as climate smart resilient inputs.
Our team
This programme is led by Dr. Mercy Wawira Njeru,a clinical psychologist. She founded this programme to address the unmet need for mental health services for farming populations facing climate change-related mental health challenges in Kenya.
Her roles in the mental health field include: