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Come to work with us

Psychiatric and other mental health professional vacancies at
Tumaini Counselling Centres in Nairobi & Kampala

Since 1991 Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and Wycliffe Bible Translators International (WBTI) have
worked cooperatively to provide counselling and mental health support services for missionaries at
Tumaini Counselling Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. ‘Tumaini’ is a Swahili word meaning ‘hope’. In 2002
we moved into a beautiful facility designed both for our confidential counselling and mental health
ministry, as well as our more public preventative care work; we even have beautiful and restful gar-
dens for quiet reflection.
Today Tumaini is a world-leading centre specializing in missionary mental health care.
While we serve the members of AIM and WBTI, we also support missionaries and their families
from over 160 like-minded agencies throughout Africa, seeing 350 – 400 people each year. Much of
this work is face-to-face consultations at Tumaini, but we also offer distance services, travel to missi-
on conferences around Africa, run seminars and offer a variety of other resources.
A new smaller centre based in Kampala, Uganda, opened in March 2016, to better serve missionaries
working in Central Africa.

All our mental health clinicians are experienced and professionally qualified in their home coun-
tries. In addition, they are missionaries themselves, co-workers in the Great Commission, working
to strengthen God’s servants as they follow His call. The current team includes psychiatrists and psy-
chologists, psychotherapists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers and counsellors
coming from the US, UK, Germany, Sweden and South Korea.

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