On the occasion of Savitribai Phule Jayanti, a day before on 2nd January we launched our bi-lingual Mental Justice Planner Diary 2021. With artwork, photos, quotes by our community and some extremely important messages for our mental health with social justice - in easy to understand, everyday language. It was inaugurated by Rotary Club of … Continue reading
Valentine’s day is celebrated on 14th February every year as a day to express love among friends, family members, romantic lovers. Often we celebrate with those whom we love and cherish the existent bonds. But hardly do we celebrate it with people with whom we have certain disagreements, or hold grudges against. Unexpressed feelings of … Continue reading Valentine’s Day Celebration with youth
We share with immense pleasure that founder Deepa Pawar's article on "Mental Justice of the NT-DNTs in Context of the Pandemic" has been published by the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW)! Please click the following link to read, do comment!https://www.epw.in/engage/article/mental-justice-nt-dnts-context-pandemic
On 30 January we reached another milestone in our Mental Justice work. A workshop was carried out in collaboration with the Kulgaon Badlapur Municipal Corporation - our first collaboration. We have started working intensively in Badlapur since last year, and this was part of our stakeholder sensitization in this area. Around 150 participants from Solid … Continue reading Mental Justice Session with Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Corporation Sanitation Workers
Discrimination and violation of rights may happen in very different ways, especially in the Indian society where diversity and social hierarchies prevail. Often the discrimination happens against a group, sect or community - like women, dalits, adivasis, NT-DNTs etc. While individual self defence techniques may come in use to fight individual attacks, these in a … Continue reading Self Defense – Mental, Social, Collective
Career related questions are one of the biggest things on youth's minds, affecting their mental health. This is something we have observed over our years of community based counseling. While it sounds technical and easy enough ("do what interests you" being the usual refrain which is very true but not enough), it literally keeps youth … Continue reading Career Counselling with Mental Health
Adolescents, school children were the first to be 'locked down' as schools closed as soon as the pandemic's risk became known in India. These children have been inside their homes, many a times without any space of their own, since they are old enough to be given responsibilities, but still children needing parental permissions. While … Continue reading Mental Health of Adolescents & School Going children
Nomadic Tribes and Denotified Nomadic Tribes (NT/DNT) communities have been historically deprived, discriminated against and under-represented. Although attempts have been made for their upliftment, significant change is yet to be seen. The community needs to bring about their revolution, not just socio-politically or economically, but also intellectually. With this intention in mind, Anubhuti held the … Continue reading Disaster Management trainings started with NT-DNT groups
Due to the pandemic this year, the constitution literacy exam was substituted by an online talk series entirely led by a youth team. The speakers composed of expert and youth panels who would discuss various relevant social, political and intellectual topics. This was an entirely youth led process, right from conceptualizing, deciding themes, finalizing resource … Continue reading Hum Sanvidhanvadi online talk series
We are happy to announce that founder Deepa Pawar has been selected as a Samvaad 2020 Fellow after weeks of rigorous selection procedure! Her project is to create and publish the first ever book documenting the iron tools & weapons making occupation of her Gadiya Lohar nomadic tribe. While weapons-making is a multi-million dollar global … Continue reading Selected as a Samvaad 2020 Fellow!
