Uni is about to be a lot. The good kind, mostly.
New room, new people, new freedom. It's exciting. It's also a bit much sometimes, and asking for help can feel awkward. Sonsam is the friend who's awake at 3 am: somewhere to vent, somewhere to ask anything, and somewhere to learn how to handle your own head.
Chat with Sonsam on WhatsApp
you a seat.
Everything you need to have a good first year. In one chat.
Sonsam lives on WhatsApp, in the app you already open a hundred times a day. Level 100 is hard for almost everyone. Nobody should have to figure it out alone.
Somewhere to vent
The stuff you can't put in the group chat or say to your mum. No judgement, no lecture, and nobody in your hall will hear about it.
Answers at 3 am
Lost on campus, lost in a course, lost in your feelings. Ask anything, at any hour, when nobody else is awake.
Skills for your head
Two-minute exercises for the overthinking, the nerves and the homesickness. Learn to manage your thoughts, feelings and emotions, between lectures.
First year is also the best year. We're here for that too.
Fits, friendships, freedom, and the small moves that make people glad they met you. Follow along on Instagram for the good stuff, not just the serious stuff.
Three steps. No forms, no waiting room.
Say hi on WhatsApp
Tap the button, send “hi”, and you're in. No sign-up, no app store, no forms.
Tell us what's going on
Vent, ask a question, or pick a topic: stress, homesickness, money, friends, exams, the roommate situation.
Get a real next step
An answer, a two-minute exercise, or a person to talk to. Come back whenever you need.
Start chatting with Sonsam
Behind the stickers, we take this seriously.
Sonsam has adapted cutting-edge mental-health interventions from The Lab for Scalable Mental Health at Northwestern University in the USA, and reshaped them around the language, pressures and rhythms of campus life in Ghana.
Students get them through the Sonsam chat on WhatsApp, so real, tested tools live inside the app they already use, with no new download and no waiting list.
Interventions developed and tested by researchers at Northwestern's Lab for Scalable Mental Health, adapted for our context.
It runs on WhatsApp, works on any phone, and is there at 3 am. No app to download, no account to make.
When someone needs more than we can give, we point them to their campus counselling centre and emergency support.
Give every first-year a friend from day one.
We work alongside counselling centres, student affairs teams and the services students rely on. If you support young people in Ghana, we'd like to talk.
Universities
Extend your student-support capacity without adding to your counsellors' caseload. Evidence-based self-help for the many, clear signposting to you for the few who need more.
Service providers
Reach students where they already are, through a brand they trust, with a partner that puts their wellbeing first.