What You Need to Understand About Mental Health in BME Communities
(World News UK)

`I remember there was a thing a few years ago, with a lady picking rice. In Caribbean communities, there`s a custom of picking the bad rice out of a batch; we sit and clean it like that before we make it,` says Janet Clarke-Lewis, Director of Services at the the ACCI (African Caribbean Community Initiative), one of the country`s leading community organisations dealing with mental health in the black and Asian community. `There was a situation some years ago, where someone had gone in and saw someone picking rice, and said she was counting the rice grain, and reported her behaviour.` Clarke-Lewis is in a room in a small building in Wolverhampton, absentmindedly looking at the pictures of...