Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

The Vital Advocacy Group

"...the mental health needs of the persons impacted by a genocide in Zimbabwe..."

The Vital Advocacy Group

I heard of mental health needs
of the victims of natural disasters,
talk of storms or floods and the like.

Did anyone ever think about the mental
health needs of the persons impacted
by a genocide in Zimbabwe?—I wondered.

Years later, a sad, sharp child of one of the victims
of the genocide became a psychiatrist and formed
The Gukurahundi Mental Health Advocacy Group.




To learn more about the Gukurahundi Massacre, read here:
How They Did It: Digging up Zimbabwe’s Gukurahundi Massacre Dossier





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