THE PROBLEM

The lack of mental health care is a huge challenge in India. The number of cases of suicide constantly rises and the country leads the world in the number of people living with Depression and Anxiety. The stigma, lack of awareness, and the fact that people from lower-income backgrounds could not access therapy further take away from the well-being of millions. This leads to a serious problem of mental disease among the socio-economically underprivileged population of India and they may not even be aware of it.

THE SOLUTION

You're Wonderful Project (YWP) is an organisation that wants to solve this problem by providing free therapy to people from low-income homes. 

Currently, they provide an additional line of support by conducting programs in schools and schools called Social Emotional Learning, they conduct mental health awareness events both online and offline, providing online peer support, for the right guidance and information. YWP also has a list of professionals that are matched with people who reach out to YWP needing help. They now intend to facilitate pro-bono therapy for those who cannot afford it.

JUST INR 4000 WILL ENSURE THAT ONE UNDERPRIVILEGED PERSON WILL GETS 10 SESSIONS OF THERAPY.

THE PROCESS

A typical round of therapy lasts for 10 sessions. You’re Wonderful Project has more than 20 on-board professionals on a contract and to cater to a larger number of clients, and aims to hire 10 full-time therapists who will be able to provide therapy to more than 3000 people including those from low-income homes. While currently they only cater to those who reach out through their online platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Website etc.). The plan is to tie up with NGOs and who will help locate beneficiaries.

ABOUT ME

My name is Manya and I am 19 years old.

I am eager to volunteer for this campaign as I believe that it is extremely essential to provide the required resources, and interventions to those who suffer from from mental health conditions. While the importance of mental health and emotional well-being is being recognised, it is still not regarded as equally important as physical well-being and neither are resources for seeking help for these conditions equally accessible to everyone. These are especially challenging times which have impacted all facets of our lives, hence it is imperative that we ensure that those who need help can seek help readily and most importantly without any embarrassment as shame as conversations about. mental health well-being are still quite stigmatised. Mental health issues must be tackled with as much urgency and care as physical health issues are since these issues are extremely difficult to deal with and can have devastating consequences which can prevent individuals to conduct day to day activities. It is vital that resources to tackle these issues are equally available to people regardless of their backgrounds as these conditions are extremely difficult to deal with for everyone.

I would like to do my best to contribute to this campaign.

EVENTS HOSTED BY YWP

ABOUT YOU'RE WONDERFUL PROJECT (YWP)

You’re Wonderful Project; started as a student-run organization that believes in peer-counselling and motivating people towards betterment. In the past few years, the You’re Wonderful Project; has come through a long journey of learning, to be where we are today. Our work on mental health has seen much success in terms of large-scale campaigns, awareness drives, engaging events and making mental health facilities more accessible.

Our dedicated team of volunteers work day and night to talk to those in need. Our research team is conducting original research to advance the study of mental health, and help better the work that we do. Several members come together to create the beautiful informative posts that you find on our social media channels. As part of on-ground action, in the last month itself, we were able to reach out to more than 6000 students as part of our pilot for the SPEAK campaign, which aims towards mental health literacy in school students.

FEEDBACK THAT YOU GET

To ensure that there is complete transparency a report from tYWP ( this takes between 1 to 2 months usually after the funds are raised & transferred) about who benefitted from the funding will be updated. The details will then be posted on the UPDATES section of my campaign and will be in a format like the one below. As soon as the update is posted, the platform will send an EMAIL alert to all the funders - i.e to you. That's transparent right?