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	'''Logos Circle / Enugu''' first met on 24 January 2026 at Roots Café in Enugu, Nigeria. It chose mental health as its winnable issue and made a short awareness documentary, which it released on YouTube in August 2026.		<!-- The paragraph between the onlyinclude tags is shown on [[Start a Circle/Winnable Issues from Circles]]. Keep the tags. -->
			<onlyinclude>'''Logos Circle / Enugu''' first met on 24 January 2026 at Roots Café in Enugu, Nigeria. It chose mental health as its winnable issue and made a short awareness documentary, which it released on YouTube in August 2026.</onlyinclude>

	== Introduction ==		== Introduction ==
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	== Join ==		== Join ==
	{{Circle fill\|how a newcomer joins: the Luma page, the group chat, what to expect at a first meeting.}}		{{Circle fill\|how a newcomer joins: the Luma page, the group chat, what to expect at a first meeting.}}
	See [~~https:~~/~~/circles.logos.co/readme/about-logos-circles/how-~~to-join-a~~-logos-circle~~ How to join a Logos Circle].		See [[Start a Circle/How to join a Logos Circle\|How to join a Logos Circle]].

	== Winnable issues completed ==		== Winnable issues completed ==
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	== Working on ==		== Working on ==
	The Circle is building a resource library that Circles can use to organise peer-to-peer mental health training. In August 2026 it shared a demo video of the library ([https://forum.logos.co/t/1958 t/1958]).		The Circle is building a resource library that Circles can use to organise peer-to-peer mental health training. In August 2026 it shared a demo video of the library ([https://forum.logos.co/t/1958 t/1958]).

			'''Local context:''' Mental health challenges among Nigerian youth are escalating faster than available support systems can handle. In Enugu, deep cultural stigma frames mental health struggles as personal weakness or spiritual failure, causing most people to suffer in silence. Professional mental health infrastructure is critically sparse, with therapists concentrated in a few institutions making access difficult and expensive. There is no safe, anonymous way for people to reach out for help without fear of being identified by family, employers, or peers.

			'''Winnable Issue: Community Mental Health Infrastructure for Enugu'''

			'''Goal:''' Build a community-owned mental health support system starting with UNN students, using three interconnected tools built on the Logos stack:

			# Anonymous first-contact support channel (via Logos Messaging) where people in distress can reach out without fear of identification, staffed by trained peer listeners
			# Permanent mental health resource library (via Logos Storage) with verified professional services, crisis contacts, and psychoeducation materials
			# Community-governed therapy subsidy crowdfund (via Logos Blockchain) that subsidizes therapy costs for those who can't afford professional care

			'''Status:''' Two partnership proposals have been drafted:

			# UNN Department of Psychology to serve as the academic and clinical anchor, providing ethical oversight, professional expertise, and co-research opportunities
			# Bespoke Therapeutic Consults (a local therapy practice) to lead peer support training, provide clinical supervision, and serve as the primary professional referral point

	== Allies nearby ==		== Allies nearby ==

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{{Infobox circle
| name = Logos Circle / Enugu
| location = Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
| first = 24 January 2026
| completed = 1
| buckets = Health
| reports = 6, January to August 2026
| status = Active
| languages = English, Pidgin English
}}
'''Logos Circle / Enugu''' first met on 24 January 2026 at Roots Café in Enugu, Nigeria. It chose mental health as its winnable issue and made a short awareness documentary, which it released on YouTube in August 2026.

== Introduction ==
{{Circle fill|who you are, where and how often you meet, and who comes. Three to five sentences.}}

== Declaration ==
{{Circle fill|what the Circle stands for and the problem it has chosen to work on. In your own words.}}

== Join ==
{{Circle fill|how a newcomer joins: the Luma page, the group chat, what to expect at a first meeting.}}
See [https://circles.logos.co/readme/about-logos-circles/how-to-join-a-logos-circle How to join a Logos Circle].

== Winnable issues completed ==
Dated by the day the work was done, or the meetup that reported it done. Figures are the Circle's own, from its reports.
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! # !! Date !! Issue !! Area !! What was delivered !! Report
|-
| 1 || 30 August 2026 || Mental health awareness film || Health || The Circle finished its short documentary on mental health, showed it at an online Circle and uploaded it to YouTube ([https://youtu.be/BYmM-HVSwuQ the film]). || [https://forum.logos.co/t/1958 t/1958]
|}

== Working on ==
The Circle is building a resource library that Circles can use to organise peer-to-peer mental health training. In August 2026 it shared a demo video of the library ([https://forum.logos.co/t/1958 t/1958]).

== Allies nearby ==
* Federal Psychiatric Hospital: the Circle visited to follow up with health professionals there on mental health, and the June 2026 report says the meeting led to steps to further their partnership ([https://forum.logos.co/t/1789 t/1789])

== Reports ==
* January 2026, first Circle: [https://forum.logos.co/t/1501 t/1501]
* February 2026, second Circle and working groups: [https://forum.logos.co/t/1557 t/1557]
* April 2026, Borderless Tech Hub at UNN Nsukka and documentary filming: [https://forum.logos.co/t/1627 t/1627]
* May 2026, peer-to-peer training trial: [https://forum.logos.co/t/1706 t/1706]
* June 2026, open pitch session: [https://forum.logos.co/t/1789 t/1789]
* August 2026, online Circle and documentary release: [https://forum.logos.co/t/1958 t/1958]

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Circles/Enugu - Revision history

Eleutherious: Start a Circle guide: winnable issues from the Circles GitBook added, opening paragraph marked for the summary page, GitBook link repointed

Eleutherious: Parallel Wiki build: page from sourced research, source-checked 9 October 2026