Mera Sahara

Mera Sahara was inspired by a personal story. Discrimination, despair and de-humanization faced by individuals suffering from mental illnesses is wide-spread in Pakistan especially in rural areas. Often times families do not understand the problem and seek help via traditional healers, peers as opposed to a proper medical approach. Mera Sahara will tackle the lack of awareness and promote psychological well being using a very simplistic model focusing on awareness, engagement and service. This will primarily target women in low social economic sector of Pakistan. Awareness will be achieved through a dramatized, education approach that will grasp the attention of the local population and direct them to support systems via helplines. This will include video content translated into the local languages. Engagement will be achieved through these helplines which will be manned by medical students motivated to help their community members. Medical students will conduct brief screening questionnaires, collect data, pass it along to schedule appointments with doctors. Henceforth providing service by engaging the community. This will help create a link between our two main technological aides content and online community platform. Through this initiative we hope to promote psychological well-being and achieve happier, healthier individuals.

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