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LONDON: A new podcast that aims to destigmatize the subject of mental health in the UK’s Muslim community will explore topics that are rarely talked about and often overlooked, its hosts say. The podcast, launching this week, will be released by UK-based mental health and bereavement charity Supporting Humanity on the 25th of every month. It is hosted by three Muslim mothers

LONDON: Discussing mental health is becoming more acceptable among Muslim communities in Britain and misconceptions are being properly addressed, experts have claimed. “Mental health has been around for a long time, but we have not accepted it or actually sought help, and now we need to get minority communities in the UK, and globally, to understand that mental health is not a

Supporting Humanity boss Idris Patel was presented with his British Empire Medal (BEM) last week for services to the community throughout the pandemic. 

Idris Patel, chief executive of charity Supporting Humanity, has been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021 for his services to the Ilford community during Covid-19.

LONDON: Mental health charity collaborates with Islamic education platform to deliver a series of educational and spiritual workshops throughout Ramadan that will provide Muslims relief from the mental health strain of spending a second straight holy month under tight coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions.  Mental health charity Supporting Humanity has partnered with Islamic education platform Teach Me Islam to deliver the online sessions. The organizations will provide Islamic talks, children�...

Nothing after the ICU other than death: Behind the lines of Britains Covid War 13 minutes to read By: Alan Cowell The government has laid out plans for gradual reopening. But in cramped intensive care wards, teeming with patients and doctors near despair, the battle is unrelenting. The numbers may be trending downward, but the battle is no less intense. In the land of Winston Churchill, it is likened sometimes to war, the Covid war. In the latest phase of Britains splintered c...

Behind the lines of Britain’s COVID war By Alan Cowell New York Times,Updated March 1, 2021, 11:20 p.m. Email to a Friend A nurse tried to reassure Haydar Sal, a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit at Homerton hospital in East London, Jan. 17, 2021. Sal lost more than 65 pounds battling COVID.ANDREW TESTA/NYT LONDON — The numbers may be trending downward, but the battle is no less intense. In the land of Winston Churchill, it is likened sometimes to war, the COVID war. In the ...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to claim lives, a bereavement charity is encouraging young people to "give back" to those who have passed away in their local community.  London charity Supporting Humanity, alongside the Muslim Patel Burial Trust, is using volunteers to maintain graves in Manor Park Cemetery and Crematorium in east London. There are currently 476 graves within the burial ground, and its a number that has been rapidly increasing since the pandemic began. Idris Patel, Suppo...