Project Maanasi
“Project Maanasi” is a humanitarian initiative by groups of Rotary Clubs from India and USA and The Rotary Foundation to provide quality community mental health care in rural southern India.
A joint humanitarian initiative of Rotary Bangalore Midtown, Rotary Howard West (Maryland, USA) and St. Johns Medical College, “Project Maanasi” provides quality community mental health care in rural India. Today the “Maanasi Clinic" at Mugalur village is serving poor women and children with varying degrees of mental illness by providing medical care to patients from 206 villages, 8 districts around Bangalore with a reach of 6 million households. — CLICK HERE to learn more about Project Maanasi and how you can provide financial support.
A joint humanitarian initiative of Rotary Bangalore Midtown, Rotary Howard West (Maryland, USA) and St. Johns Medical College, “Project Maanasi” provides quality community mental health care in rural India. Today the “Maanasi Clinic" at Mugalur village is serving poor women and children with varying degrees of mental illness by providing medical care to patients from 206 villages, 8 districts around Bangalore with a reach of 6 million households. — CLICK HERE to learn more about Project Maanasi and how you can provide financial support.
Lithuania Project
For more than ten past years, the suicide rate in Lithuania has been one of the highest in the world and the highest in Europe and has not been decreasing. It has remained above 30 per 100,000 inhabitants exceeding the European average of 9.4 more than three-fold.
This project will benefit:
- Multiple municipalities and more than 45 communities with a functioning suicide prevention system and access to psychological help.
- Inhabitants of Lithuania with increased access to helplines supplying phone services. Several suicide hotlines have been set up and academic work regarding this proceeds in 2 universities.
- Society of Lithuania from campaigns about public awareness of suicide prevention.
Maanasi Kenya
Groundwork for the Maanasi model of Rotarians working together, academic evaluations and teaching, and training of 9 women case workers from 9 villages, evaluation of children and adults who suffered from depression and anxiety, alcohol abuse, and cerebral malaria was laid in October 2018. The training was intense - all day from 8 am to about 6 pm. Three nurses from the Johns Hopkins University inpatient unit joined Vice-Chair Dr. Geetha Jayaram and her husband on this venture. One of the nurses is from Kenya and knows Swahili which helped a lot. The local caseworkers were bright, eager to learn and knew the lessons within days.
Sr. Agnesita could treat them, but medications are scarce and she has to send away for them from Nairobi. So we are raising funds for medications first.
It will work if people like you lend a hand in raising funds for a Global Grant. Our goal is to raise $10K and get other clubs to pitch in to gather a total of $30K.