In 2010, Sitawa began a self-titled blog as an outlet for her epilepsy and mental health struggles. As her blog gained popularity, she used it alongside a monthly poetry night she hosted in Nairobi, to speak about various policy and social issues that affected people living with epilepsy and mental health conditions and their families.

She later founded MMMF as a resource hub that focused on providing epilepsy and mental health information and linkages to support systems. A few months after MMMF’s inception, her blog won a Google Award for its consistency in providing information and linkages support to Africans. Sitawa used her award money to build a solution for the people she had interacted with through her blog.

In 2014, MMMF set up and ran Kenya’s first free support line, and grew from a one woman operation to a full time team of 8 (2 in house counselors, 1 program officer, 1 community mobilizer, and an office manager) and 2 on call psychiatrists.

MMMF also worked with a rotating number of university volunteers and interns who were constantly being trained to be mental health ambassadors in their schools.