October 10th 2022 was world mental health open day. Otto Benecker Foundation, together with Dagoretti sub-county health committee, Aga Khan University (AKI), Calmind Foundation, Basic Needs, Street Talent Africa, Shamir Foundation among other participated in the event attended by over 300 people. The event graced by Senator Kasanga, stressed on the needs for making mental health a priority by funding adequately, equipping hospitals with personnel on mental health and entrenching preventive and promotive mechanisms. Otto Benecker Foundation shared its strategies that had worked including: peer to peer dialogues in safe spaces, soccer clinics as promoter of good health and spaces for dialoguing and magnet theatre as an advocacy tool for behavior change communication.