Friendly Innovative Development Solutions (FIDS)

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Friendly Innovative Development Solutions (FIDS) formerly Fight Depression and Stress (FIDS) is a Community Based Organisation founded in 2019 due to high rate of suicide and killings as result of stress and depression. The organization was registered in January 2020, Busia County, Kenya under the Nongovernmental organizations coordinstion Act of 1990. FIDS focuses on issues around mental health. Discouraging suicide and killings as away of fighting our challenges.

The main aim of FIDS is to eliminate preceding cases in the future through donating of several benefactor support to the community. These interventions include:
• Identifying and offering counselling to the victims of stress and depression;
• Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) campaigns in the community;
• Mentorship and capacity building among the teenage and the youth;
• Civic education to the interior rural areas of Busia;
• Relief distributions to the vulnerable people in the society; and
• Team building among the selected straight up groups.

Mission
To champion for a stress-free community and Make the world a better place.

Vision
To reduce stress and depression to minimum level

We run five programs.
• Circles of Healing: We do it in enclosed places like prison where we offer psychosocial support to women inmates and also in children's homes.
• Community engagement: Where we meet communities through public participation, Barazas.
• Walk to a healthy Mind: Where we do short walks for mental health sensitization. Encouraging the power of speaking out.
• Weka Lock Tuliza Stress: Swahili words meaning to reduce stress we have to avoid by locking our privacy. This is for young people or teenagers discouraging early sexual relationship that may lead to early teenage pregnancy, early marriages and sexual transmitted diseases among others.
• Food for Stress Relief: We do vegetable planting for economic empowerment especially to survivors of Gender Based Violence(GBV).

Roselyne Nelly Wandaki is the Founder and Director of Friendly Innovative Development Solutions (FIDS).

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