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Current Projects

Our Work in India

Our work in India involves 13 partners across five states.

We’re working with Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (NBJK), SACRED, SAMUHA, EKTA, SPREAD, WORD, Margadarshi, the Narendra Foundation, BIRDS, Uma Educational and Technical Society (UETS), the Shristi Special Academy, Vasantham Federation and WORD Pudukkottai, across five states in India: Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha and Tamil Nadu.

Barefoot Counselling Research Project

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  • Location

    Tamil Nadu, India

  • Project Dates

    April 2025 – March 2027 

  • Project Partners

    Vasantham Federation

  • Funder

    Randeree Charitable Trust, Souter Charitable Trust, Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
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An action research project which will train 50 barefoot counsellors who will go on to support 1,000 unpaid carers. We will also be producing a training manual and evaluating the training programme with a view to being able to roll it out to other partners and organisations.

Achieving Socio-economic Inclusion of Vulnerable Family Carers

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  • Location

    Karnataka, India

  • Project Dates

    January 2025 – December 2026

  • Project Partners

    BIRDS

  • Funder

    Fresh Leaf
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This project sees us expanding our work with BIRDS to reach 400 new unpaid carers and help them to establish enterprises that will generate an income. We will assess the kind of work that would be best for them and that would fit around their caring responsibilities, and provide them with the necessary training.

Promoting Mental Health and Well-being

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  • Location

    Tamil Nadu, India

  • Project Dates

    January 2025 – December 2025

  • Project Partners

    WORD Pudukkottai

  • Funder

    St James’s Place Charitable Foundation
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This project will set up new Carers Groups and empower unpaid carers to advocate for their needs and the needs of their relatives. It will also provide health camps to formally diagnose and treat people with mental health conditions and any carers who require support, and will also provide medicines when they’re not available through the district mental health programme.

Development Of Carers Groups

And Advocacy Work
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  • Location

    Karnataka, India

  • Project Dates

    July 2024 – June 2025

  • Project Partners

    Multiple partners

  • Funder

    Goyal Foundation
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This project will strengthen our network of carers groups across the South Asia region and drive forward our work with policymakers to achieve long-term change for carers and their families.
Specifically, we will:
  • Plan and deliver training to the government network of rehabilitation workers at panchayat and district level across Karnataka state (south India)
  • Continue our focussed lobbying of the Government of Karnataka at the state level
The outcomes of this project will be:
  • 200 government rehabilitation workers equipped to facilitate panchayat-level Carers Groups
  • Promotion of 1,500 Carers Groups involving approximately 15,000 unpaid carers
  • Reduced isolation of unpaid carers and increased access to information, advice and support
  • Linking 500 to 750 eligible carers with the National Rural Livelihood Mission (a government poverty alleviation scheme focussed on the rural poor)
  • Facilitate access to the government’s new Carers Allowance (for those carers who meet the current eligibility criteria: estimated to be 3 – 4,000 carers)
  • Lobbying of the state government, focussing on widening the eligibility criteria for the Carers Allowance.

To Empower Carers

Through Awareness And Alternative Livelihood Programmes
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  • Location

    Tamil Nadu, India

  • Project Dates

    November 2023 – October 2026

  • Project Partners

    WORD Pudukkottai

  • Funder

    Daughters of Jesus
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This project will support 350 unpaid family carers and the 350 people with mental illness that they care for. Together, we will promote mental health and economic well-being through Carers Groups and livelihood support, as well as the integration of unpaid carers within their community.

Livelihoods Project

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  • Location

    Karnataka, India

  • Project Dates

    October 2022 - May 2025

  • Project Partners

    Margadarshi

  • Funder

    Fresh Leaf Foundation, Open Gate Trust, Christadelphian Samaritan Fund, Southall Trust, Embracing Carers, Be One Foundation, King Charles III Charitable Fund
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This project will provide support for 170 unpaid carers to set up new livelihood initiatives to help lift their families out of poverty. It will also establish a revolving fund which other carers will be able to continue to access into the future to help them set up their own livelihood initiatives.
The project also includes carers’ empowerment and advocacy activities, impacting up to 1,500 unpaid carers.

Breaking The Silence

Empowering And Supporting People With Mental Illness And Epilepsy And Their Carers In Tribal Regions Of Odisha
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  • Location

    Koraput District, Odisha, India

  • Project Dates

    April 2021 – March 2026

  • Project Partners

    WORD, Ekta, SPREAD

  • Funder

    The Live Love Laugh Foundation

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This project is working with 3,300 people with mental illness and epilepsy and their carers across Koraput district in the state of Odisha. Through the project we are strengthening the district mental health programme, running carers groups and empowering carers to advocate for their needs and the needs of their relatives living with mental health conditions.

The project is also focussing on building up the skills of partner staff, raising awareness of the issues that unpaid carers face, identifying people with mental illness and epilepsy and organising mental health camps to provide treatment and support for newly identified cases.

Through this project we are:

  • improving access to mental health services and treatment
  • supporting the mental health of carers
  • raising awareness of issues around mental health and caring
  • establishing sustainable links between carers and local health authorities
  • strengthening the capacity of staff and carers
  • improving livelihoods options and income levels for people with mental illness and epilepsy and their carers
In addition, all the families were supported with emergency food provision, supply of vital medicines and mental health support during the height of the COVID pandemic.

Completed Projects

To view our completed projects in India please click below:
Completed Projects