{"id":243567,"date":"2025-10-27T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243567\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:55:28","slug":"ct-kite-festival-gives-hope-to-those-with-mental-health-issues-sabc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243567\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Kite Festival gives hope to those with mental health issues &#8211; SABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three decades, the Cape Town International <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/garden-route-kite-festival-proceeds-to-build-high-school-bursaries\/?hilite=kite+festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kite Festival<\/a> has played a pivotal role in helping people speak openly about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/gauteng-takes-action-on-growing-mental-health-challenges\/?hilite=Cape+Mental+Health\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mental health<\/a> without the fear of stigma.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by a Non- Governmental Organisation (NGO), Cape Mental Health, the festival has become a beacon for mental health awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The sky above the Youngsfield Military Base in Wynberg has been transformed into a spectacle of colour and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>This as various kites took to the sky during the 31st edition of the Cape Town International Kite Festival returning to the Mother City.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Mental Health CEO Professor Ingrid Daniels says the festival has long been a symbol of hope and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn South Africa about 16,5 people live with a mental health condition and 92% of that group have no access to metal health services. This is a problem for us and so what Cape Mental Health does is it provides free mental health services which is why the Kite Festival is a very important event for us because the proceeds go towards helping those battling with mental health issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past three decades, the Cape Town International Kite Festival has played a pivotal role in helping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-243567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}