Pahilo Kadam Movement
How it started
The story
Mental health problems aren’t always obvious. Sometimes they look like loneliness, or like someone who has quietly been forgotten. We kept seeing this across different ages and places.
Ujjyalo means light and asha means hope. The project is about spending real time with people, talking, laughing and doing things together, and about teaching young people that it’s okay to talk about how they feel.
What we’ve done
60+senior citizensAt an old age home we did group activities with the residents and donated about a week’s worth of food staples.
31childrenOn Christmas Day one of us dressed up as Santa and handed out gifts with each child’s name on it at an orphanage.
2schoolsWe taught students at both about bullying and mental health.
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Who runs it
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