Sarbani Das Roy

Co-founder

Sarbani Das Roy is the co-founder of Iswar Sankalpa (2007)[1], an Indian non-profit working on mental health and human rights from Kolkata.

Iswar Sankalpa

Iswar Sankalpa is a Kolkata-based nonprofit, founded in 2007, working to empower people with psychosocial disabilities and mental-health conditions to attain their rights with dignity. Its flagship Naya Daur programme provides community-based outreach and psychosocial intervention for homeless persons in mental-health crisis, backed by therapeutic shelters, an urban mental-health prevention programme, and vocational reintegration training — work recognised by the WHO as a best practice in rights-based community mental health.

Iswar Sankalpa reports the following, on its own site:

2,64,780+ persons reached through awareness camps on mental health
7,706+ persons from low-resource settings and slums accessed mental healthcare
3,277+ homeless persons with psychosocial disabilities supported through the community outreach programme
607+ homeless persons reunited with their family