Cyrus Vandrevala
FounderFounder of Vandrevala Foundation
Cyrus Vandrevala is the founder of Vandrevala Foundation[1], an Indian non-profit working on mental health.
Vandrevala Foundation
Vandrevala Foundation is a nonprofit established by Cyrus and Priya Vandrevala that launched a mental health helpline in India in 2009 to offer free, confidential psychological counselling and crisis mediation to anyone experiencing distress, depression, trauma or suicidal thoughts. The 24x7 helpline is staffed pan-India in English, Hindi and other regional languages, and the foundation reports facilitating over a million conversations since it began.
Vandrevala Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- Over 1 million mental-health counselling conversations facilitated through its 24x7 helpline in 17 years of operation
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References
- [1] “Our Founders Priya Hiranandani-Vandrevala Cyrus Vandrevala” — Vandrevala Foundation. Source
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