Peter Badimak YARO is the Executive Director of BasicNeeds-Ghana. He served on the Steering Committee of STAR Ghana from 2017 to 2018. A development worker for close to fifteen years of experience, Peter is a leading mental health advocate in Ghana. Peter has been working with BasicNeeds, a leading global mental health and development organisation over the last 13 years. Peter has dedicated his work efforts to improving the situation of women and men, girls and boys with mental disorders. He has worked to promote community mental health and increasing access to community based mental health services integrated into general health care by the implementation of the model for mental health and development of BasicNeeds. This has also ensured a means to secure livelihoods for stabilised people with mental disorders and their carer-givers, and influencing public officials and institutions to be attentive to mental health issues and responsive to voice of poor and vulnerable people with mental disorders in Ghana. Peter was and continues to be active in advocacy and activities relating to the new Mental Health legislation in Ghana, scaling up of community mental health services, strengthening capacity of service users and care-givers support groups and general human rights issues. Peter is a dynamic individual who works well with others in multidisciplinary, multicultural, and multi-religious contexts. Peter was a member of the Steering Committee of the STAR Ghana programme which launched the STAR Ghana Foundation.