{"id":215038,"date":"2025-11-27T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-call-to-mainstream-children-youths-mental-well-being\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:34:20","slug":"lesotho-call-to-mainstream-children-youths-mental-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-call-to-mainstream-children-youths-mental-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Call to Mainstream Children, Youth&#8217;s Mental Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE mental and psychosocial well-being of children and youth are fundamental in building a thriving society, especially in Lesotho, where young people continue to bear the brunt of sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">This according to the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (REPSSI), the Pan-African organisation that has, since 2014, been at the forefront of providing holistic psychosocial care to children and youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">REPSSI has brought its expertise to Lesotho through partnerships with the government,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE mental and psychosocial well-being of children and youth are fundamental in building a thriving society, especially in Lesotho, where young people continue to bear the brunt of sexual violence. This according to the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (REPSSI), the Pan-African organisation that has, since 2014, been at the forefront of providing holistic psychosocial care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6880,7371,4717,1407,11452,8854,257,254,19768,8619],"class_list":["post-215038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-children","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mainstream","tag-mental","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wellbeing","tag-youths"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}