Aktivitäten und Projekte
Ethopia travel 2025
Dr. Wolfgang Krahl reporting After four years, I returned to Ethiopia for the first time. The pandemic and the devastating civil war in Tigray had long made travel impossible. During this period, contact with my friends and colleagues there was broken off; it was not until the beginning of last year that messages reached me again. They spoke of hunger, isolation, the lack of medical care, and an entire region suffering from the consequences of war. Despite all this hardship, they asked for support in rebuilding mental health services. I therefore decided to travel to Ethiopia once more. In Addis Ababa, I worked for several days with trainee psychiatrists, teaching the fundamentals of group therapy, day-clinic treatment, and outpatient addiction care. I also had the opportunity to visit a child psychiatry department and gain insight into projects dedicated to children’s mental health. I then flew on to Mekelle, where I led a workshop on outpatient addiction rehabilitation for healthcare professionals. There, it became clear how deep the psychological wounds are among healthcare workers themselves; an additional trauma-focused session was urgently requested. Finally, I traveled to Adama, where an exchange on treatment approaches took place together with traditional healers. Using case studies, both sides spoke openly about how they work, where differences lie, and how collaboration might look. The response was surprisingly positive, and a desire for further joint training emerged.
I.NEZ SCHOLARSHIPS
Completed and ongoing support for training courses Child psychiatrist in Ethiopia Psychologist in Indonesia Speech therapist in Kenya Medical students in Mozambique Specialist in psychiatry in South Sudan
Future Visions of Global Health
march 06. to 08. 2026 In cooperation with: the International Network for Development Cooperation in Mental Health (i.nez), Munich | the Competence Center for Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine, and Human Parasitology at Tübingen University Hospital | the Chair of Global Health at Akkon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin WHAT FUTURE PICTURES ARE WE DRAWING? A doctor examines a child. In the background, other people can be seen: younger children, one in a woman’s baby carrier, and a person in blue clothing—perhaps a nurse? The scene appears tidy, bright, and calm. It is not an emergency. Everyone seems safe and in good hands, especially the child on the examination table. This picture was painted on the wall of a clinic in Beira, Mozambique. A utopian vision? Perhaps. But probably their concrete vision of how they imagine healthcare in Mozambique in the future. International development cooperation—especially in the health sector—was shaken by massive disruptions in 2025. USAID, the largest and most financially powerful organization worldwide, was dissolved by the US administration in the summer of 2025. Other countries followed suit. Germany, too, cut its budget by eight percent. The consequences of the US withdrawal are dramatic; to give just one example: contraceptives worth almost ten million dollars, already stored in depots awaiting delivery to crisis zones, as well as tons of emergency food for starving people, could not be delivered. By 2030,
ROMANIA
Continuous support and further development of a community psychiatric project in Campulung. Implementation of an exchange/observation of employees of psychiatric facilities. Content-related support for reforms in forensic psychiatry
KENYA
Cooperation with the Africa Institute of Mental and Brain Health. Mental health aspects for African pediatricians with additional training in pediatric endocrinology and diabetology.
INDONESIA
On the island of Flores, support for the rehabilitation of severely mentally ill people in cooperation with the Receng Mose rehabilitation center, the KKI group and Puskesmas.
TANZANIA
Lectured at the training of Bachelors of Science in Mental Health and Rehabilitation (BSc MHR) in Lushoto. Expert advice on the establishment of a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Kiuma in southern Tanzania.
INDIA
Material support for Jyothi Nivas in Kerala, a rehabilitation facility for mentally ill people. Further training for employees of NGOs in the field of mental health together with Indian colleagues – South-South cooperation. Visit to various rehabilitation facilities in South India with Ethiopian colleagues.
GERMANY
Further training for employees from Africa, Asia and Latin America on the topic of mental health in developing countries in cooperation with the University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Organization of International Symposia “Global Mental Health – Mental Health in Developing Countries” together with the Center for International Health (CIH- LMU) and the Global Mental Health Group of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Inviting staff from developing countries to share knowledge and experience in the field of Mental Health.
SOUTH SUDAN
Support of a doctor in training for psychiatry in cooperation with the St. Paul Millenium Medical College in Addis Ababa/Ethiopia.
SOMALILAND
Since 2012 Organization of workshops on the topic: Training of nurses in the field of mental health and outpatient addiction rehabilitation together with Somali and Ethiopian colleagues. Support for the training of psychiatric specialists in cooperation with the St. Paul Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa/Ethiopia.
NEPAL
In cooperation with CMC (Centre for Mental Health and Counselling) workshops on trauma therapy.
MOSAMBIK
Lectureship in the training of medical students at the Universidade Catolica de Mosambique in Beira. Support in the development of a curriculum for psychiatric specialist training.
ERITREA
Training and familiarization with the electroencephalogram with emphasis on practical application in Asmara/ Eritrea. Unfortunately, due to the political situation, the project had to be abandoned.