Executive Director at Happiest Ones Health Support and Rights Initiative (Happiest Ones Initiative) - Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria
Happiest Ones Health Support and Rights Initiative (HOHSRI) Formerly known as Happiest Ones initiative is a non-novernmental psychosocial affirmative Organization founded in 2020. The Initiative is aimed at addressing the ongoing psychological and social needs of individuals of the LGBT Community. As a non-profit organization, HOHSRI is focused on improving on the physical, mental, psychological and indeed financial well-being of LGBTQI contingents. HOHSRI is the brainchild of Happiest Ones, a prominent humanitarian group chat established in 2014 with the principal mission of fostering a sense of purpose and togetherness, as well as camaraderie and enlightenment, amongst LGBT individuals Living in Nigeria and indeed beyond it shores. From humble beginnings, the group chat boasts over a hundred active members today and is widely acknowledged as a settler platform for sexual integration and advocacy for mental, legal, and socio-economic rights of LGBT members and as a result, held different beneficial outreaches. HOI's vision is to invest in the mental health of the Alphabet community by creating a functioning safe house/mental health clinic.HOI's mission is to work with relevant stakeholders to cater, protect and promote social and mental health of individuals of the community, most importantly, minorities. This would be effective through advocacy, community mobilization, capacity building, skill acquisition, and service delivery. There would also be the creation of therapies that embrace the positive view of the LGBTQIA community identities, relationships and addresses the negative influences that homophobia, transphobia and heterosexism have on the lives of members of the LGBTQIA Community