Weanne Estrada

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Weanne Estrada:Mental Health Without Borders: How Compassion, Culture, and Community Transform Lives Worldwide · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I think there's so many misconceptions that they are just people who are passive recipients of aid.

And I think that makes people view them as people who just suck resources or people who, you know, it kind of dehumanizes them.

And so when I hear rhetoric about that, about these populations that we serve that are incredibly resourceful, who are capable, who are very resilient, it disheartens me a little bit because these people are people with so much resilience, who have overcome so much and are trying to just recover and use the tools that they have to live a normal life, the normal lives that we're living.

And so I really stay up at night thinking of ways to help people care about these populations and see them as human.

Yeah.

So if people who are interested in what we do, especially at ADRA, you can go to our website.

That's ADRA.org.

And you can learn more about our different programs there.

There's also a tab up top on the website that says ways to give or ways to help, I believe.

And so if you are so inclined to do so, please feel free to click that tab.

I think it's really just awareness.

I did a study once on how we can make people more attuned to the needs of refugees and to their mental health.

And it really starts with contact.

So I would encourage people, there are refugees in your communities.

There are people with mental health conditions.

who might be your neighbors, who might be your coworkers.

And so I encourage you to talk to them, get to know them, get to know their needs, get to know their stories, what they've been through.

I have had the opportunity in my life to speak with refugees who have traveled from their original countries, crossed oceans to get to where they are today, and just hearing their stories of bravery and how they're now readjusting, but also just hearing about their normal lives and what they were back in their home countries of where they're

They were a doctor, a business professional or a student.

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