Aashish Wagle from Kathmandu, Nepal has been involved in volunteering at different places and currently serving as a club coordinator at leo club of Kathmandu, Alka but he has not served in mental health related programs so this is his first time. He has some basic understanding of mental health which includes human’s emotional, psychological, and social well-being. He hopes to learn a lot from m4m serving as a volunteer here.
Agis Somantri from Indonesia has been involved in a number youth development program but this is the first one with mental health as a core focus. He does have a sound understanding of mental health, self development and well being and he also would like to discuss and campaign this focus as he wants to learn from everyone
As a public health student, she has linked mental health and wellness very closely. She has also participated in various mental health and awareness programs and tries to provide more information to the people about mental illness.
While Pranita does have experience in volunteering for social services, M4M is the first program that she has joined which is exclusively for Mental Health. She has attended conferences and online sessions on mental health hosted by mental health professionals on ‘Mind Over Matter Bhutan’
Pratigya kayastha recently graduated in Public Health and currently, she is involved in a few online platforms for volunteering and youth development. She has a sound understanding of mental health conditions, types, its prevention and baseline situation as she studied it as a part of her curriculum. She conducted awareness programs on mental well-being as well. Furthermore, she really enjoys researching and community development activities. She is really excited to be part of this opportunity and looking forward to contributing towards improvement of mental wellbeing.
Priya Rauniyar is from Kathmandu, Nepal. She has done few social works before and has also done volunteering work in an old age home for a week.
She learned the importance of mental health later in her life when she was in her high school. Meeting the standards created by society today makes such a huge impact on people’s mind and life. We all must learn to keep up with these but without letting it consume us from within. Rather she learnt that every individual must prioritize to focus on our peace of mind and whole being to create our own attainable goals. This is when she started to get more interested in mental health issues and creating awareness in people.
Past a few years Sana Asghar has been engaged in many activities related to raising awareness for youth, for example mentoring of youth, peer education, peer counseling, abortion stigma, and many societal taboos. When she sums up all situations in a broader aspect, they all are interrelating with each other and have a direct connection with mental health. She said “We all are facing many problems and suffering but our youths are more exposed to MH issues that is why I started doing counselling.” First, she got training for herself then she started my journey with her peers in university than for the school and out of school kids and it is also the reason why she has joined M4M.
Sanju Maharjan is pursuing her undergraduate degree in public health at Institute of Medicine. Having been surrounded by people who have been involved in medicine, she was surprised when these people were so ignorant about mental health issues and the ones facing problems were stigmatized. That’s when she realized the lack of knowledge and awareness about mental health issues. It’s time that we prioritize our mental health, speak about it without having to face any kind of discrimination and stigmatization and help create world a better place to live in.
Zarmeen’s strings with mental health activities started from the workshops of COFW (Consultant Of Future World) in Karachi (Pakistan) where she attended their trainings which proved to be productive and enhanced her inner personality. Academically being a medical student, she is aware of the importance of mental health which can highly affect the physical health of a person. Already this year has been a globally critical year which has tremendously along with the physical health that affects the mental health of people which indicates that now serious steps must be needed to take for sorting mental health issues immediately.
