Help Amaudo stay on the road

Amaudo’s main centre vehicle is over 8 years old and has suffered greatly travelling on the poor roads (dirt tracks!) around Amaudo, across Abia State and beyond. The costs of maintaining the vehicle are now extremely high and it's unreliability is frustrating and disruptive. A new vehicle is essential for Amaudo and will enable us to provide vital mental health support to over 50,000 people in highly inaccessible, rural locations over the next five years. This will allow us to continue transforming lives and increasing community understanding of mental health into the future.

The cost of a new vehicle is in excess of N26,000,000 which is close to £50,000! By part-exchanging the current vehicle and applying for different grants we have achieved three quarters of our target, but we still have some way to go.

We need your support to stay on the road

‘The Road to Amaudo’ was written and gifted to us, by our patron Jackie Kay.

Jackie Kay (b. 1961) is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, whose subtle investigation into the complexities of identity have been informed by her own life. Born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white couple. Kay’s awareness of her different heritages inspired her first book of poetry, The Adoption Papers, which dramatises her experience through the creation of three contrasting narrators: an adoptive mother, a birth mother and a daughter. The book was a great success, winning the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year and a commendation from the Forward Poetry Prize judges. Subsequent collections and her celebrated first novel, Trumpet, have continued to explore issues of cultural and sexual identity as well as the intimacies and upheavals of love. Kay has also written poetry for children and her first children’s novel, Strawgirl, was published in 2002. She currently lives in Manchester.

Our short film was narrated and created by Andrew Horner.

Andrew Horner is a voice over artist, actor and poet based in London. He has been working consistently in the voice over industry since 2014. Beyond the studio Andrew has just completed his first poetry book ‘My Life In Pieces’ which is available world wide from various retailers. The book deals with mental health and breaking down those stigmas. He creates poetry for the instagram page Tales of the Nook with his artist friend Michael Felton at Square specs. Andrew aims to use his pen and poetry to break down the stigmas on mental health, suicide awareness and other difficult topics, society is still uncomfortable with. He is currently working on his second book due for release next year ‘Boy and his arrow’.