Mercy Hinneh: Woman who fled trauma, now fights to save children living it
Growing up in Liberia, many children grapple with mental health challenges rooted in years of civil conflict and widespread poverty.
Exposure to violence, displacement, and instability has left deep psychological scars, contributing to anxiety, trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among young people. Studies indicate that nearly 24 per cent of adolescents in such environments experience mental distress.
For Mercy Hinneh, the struggles were deeply personal. Now a mother of two and the founder of the God Blue Prints Foundation, Hinneh grew up in an environment she describes as marked by fear, coercion, and spiritual confusion.
With her father absent and her mother relocating to the United States in 1997 through a diversity programme, she was left in the care of relatives who she says subjected her to severe physical and psychological abuse.
