Abdul Mabood

Founder

Founder of Snehi

Abdul Mabood is the founder of Snehi (1994)[1], an Indian non-profit working on mental health from New Delhi.

Abdul Mabood is an Indian counsellor and the founder of Snehi, a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation working on mental health and psychosocial support. Snehi was formed on 12 October 1994 on his initiative, together with a group of individuals from different walks of life, and he has been associated with it since. He serves as its director.

Career

Snehi was registered as a society in April 1996 under the Societies Registration Act 1860 in Delhi, and has its registered office in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. The organisation provides psychological counselling and support to people in crisis, with the aim of preventing suicide and mental disorders and promoting positive mental health. Its work is organised around education, counselling and support, and advocacy, and it operates face-to-face counselling, a free telephonic counselling helpline and referral services.

Snehi states that since its inception it has reached more than 141,000 people in distress through crisis intervention telephone counselling and referral services. Mabood is a trained counsellor.

He is also a co-founder of Sadbhav Mission, a Delhi-based organisation that works on communal harmony in several Indian states.[2][3]

Snehi

Snehi is a New Delhi-based mental healthcare nonprofit established in 1994, providing face-to-face and telephonic counselling, referral services and community awareness workshops on mental health. Over three decades it has counselled more than 155,000 people and trained over 3,000 professionals.

Snehi reports the following, on its own site: