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Journey To Wholeness (JTW), the corporate social responsibility initiative of EL-Cubed International Limited, celebrated its fifth anniversary recently, marking five years of providing free family life counselling, therapy, and coaching services to individuals and families unable to afford paid mental health care.
Founded on September 26th, 2020, under the framework of Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being, the organization has positioned itself as a support system for vulnerable communities, offering professional mental health services at no cost to recipients.
Over its five-year operation, JTW has served 355 people through free counselling, therapy, and coaching sessions. The organization operates with 28 dedicated practitioners who volunteer their professional expertise and time to provide quality mental health support. Financial backing has come from eight sponsors and donors, including both individuals and corporate entities such as the 2022 Flourish Africa Award and MOE Advisory Limited, who have collectively contributed 6,180,150 million naira to support the organization’s operations.
According to the organization, families previously struggling in isolation now possess tools to navigate conflict, rebuild trust, and achieve stability. Individuals facing emotional and mental health challenges have found safe spaces for healing, while communities have witnessed restoration of hope and wholeness on a family-by-family basis.
JTW is now launching The Inner Strength Project (TISP), a new initiative focused on bringing mental health services to communities experiencing extreme poverty. The project aims to restore hope, resilience, and emotional well-being by providing accessible mental health awareness, support, and tools to underserved communities.
The foundation identifies a critical gap in impoverished areas where survival needs such as food, water, and shelter take priority over emotional and psychological needs. The organization states that untreated trauma, depression, and stress resulting from rape, adverse childhood experiences, domestic violence, and substance abuse perpetuate cycles of poverty, violence, and hopelessness.
The Inner Strength Project will focus on breaking mental health stigma by normalizing conversations around psychological well-being, providing educational workshops and community discussions that teach practical coping tools, offering group counselling and peer networks, and equipping local leaders and volunteers to sustain mental wellness initiatives long-term.
Planned activities include free mental health first aid training for local leaders, teachers, and caregivers, community workshops on stress management and emotional healing, play therapy sessions for children, storytelling and creative arts for trauma recovery, and the establishment of “Safe Space Hubs” where people can gather for support and resources.
The organization maintains that by strengthening inner resilience, people can not only survive poverty but rise above it, with mental health serving as a foundation for stronger families, hopeful communities, better decision-making, and generational transformation.
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