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Where We Work

 
We work in 3 communities in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand in North India - Sahaspur, Majra and Mussoorie
 

Burans project started in three communitieswith a target of 24 000 people in each (ie total of 72000)

What have we learned so far?

 

Our baseline survey of 960 people in 30 randomised clusters found
 Over 6 % of the population live with untreated depression
 Less than 10% of people with mental distress and disorders access mental health services
 People most at risk for depression are those in poverty, with little education, with loans and poor housing and who are SC or ST.
 Most people have very low knowledge about mental illness
 There is significant stigma and discrimination against people with mental disorders
 

World Mental Health day 2014

We celebrated World Mental health day 2014 with a community pledge to include PWMD, training to ASHA and AWW and publication of two newspaper articles.

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