Through the Lens: Shamiri Fellow

Meet Marvin 22, a Shamiri Fellow (lay-provider), mental health advocate, and AI specialist. Marvin shares his take on youth mental health in Kenya, his experience with the Shamiri intervention, and what mental health care gets wrong in the African context.

This is Through the Lens, a video series by Shamiri on making mental health work. We are building systemic impact at scale, addressing the critical barriers to care that youth (particularly in the Global South) experience, including: high costs of care, a lack of trained professionals, and a scalable care model. Hear from key voices in creating this change from Shamiri Fellows to recipients of the Shamiri intervention to technologists, researchers, educators, and more.