The Resilience zine is dedicated to sharing the story of COVID-19 and mental health in South Africa. SAFMH’s goal with this publication is to put into practice our brand of “carpe diem”. We wish to seize the moment and capture important learnings, but in contrast to traditional carpe diem, which doesn’t place much focus on the future, we wish to take what we have experienced and learned during the pandemic and apply it to how we approach our work going forward. We want to grab the opportunity, build on the inadvertent focus that COVID-19 has placed on mental health, and ensure that mental health, whether during emergency situations or just during plain, everyday living, will no longer be invisible.
