M4M Core Members Profile
Batch II
M4M 2021 Batch II Core Members Profile
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Ali Raza khan
Ali Raza Khan is a YPLHIV activist leading “Hi Voices” an initiative raising voices of young people affected by HIV and young minorities. Living in a Muslim majority country and being from YPLHIV, gender and religious minority group Ali had to face discrimination, stigma, bullying and exclusion by his family, friends, colleagues and social gatherings. Due to his experiences, he was becoming suicidal when against all odds he started working for the betterment of his own community of YPLHIV, gender and religious minorities. He believes in the present scenario mental health issues among young people are increasing drastically to counter it. He joined M4M to better understand mental health and ways to counter it.
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Maria Iqbal Shah
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
Miss Maria Iqbal Shah, is a core member and Mentor of Me for Myself (2021) is a student of the BScN program, Aga Khan University, Pakistan. She is passionate about learning new things such as mental health, sexual reproductive health, and rights, history, and culture. Besides, her skills, teamwork abilities, and experiences made her able to be an enthusiastic core member and mentor of M4M. She had participated in different national and international volunteer programs, competitions, and projects. She believes being a core member and mentor of M4M is a milestone for her career. As a core member and mentor, she will try her best to be the rainbow in someone’s cloud. She aims to be a successful nurse in the future and She will try her best to make this world a better place to live for everyone.
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Bhawana Pradhan
Bhawana Pradhan, from Bhutan, had been a Core Volunteer in M4M VP 2020 and currently working as one of its “Core Member”. She is an undergraduate, pursuing a B.Sc in Environment and Climate Studies at the College of Natural Resources. She has organised and facilitated seminars on Mental Health Awareness to promote education and awareness on mental illness and the importance of good mental health. She has also been serving as Peer Educator in YPEER Bhutan by engaging youths to promote advocacy through a peer approach. Through this M4M campaign, she hopes to make a difference in one’s life in her own little efforts.
“Do not let your mentality disconnect with this world, Do not underestimate your potential or worth, Just know that you are the warrior of your own life, So there is always a hope with patience, courage and optimism.”
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Safalta Maharjan
Ms Safalta Shrestha, 16 is one of the M4M core members of 2021. She has recently completed school. She loves playing traditional instruments and also teaches young people. Mental health is being able to be your true self. Through M4M she wants to help young people going through mental issues. She is also volunteering in Y-PEER Nepal & Working Group on Disabilities 2030 organisations.
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Vidooshi Gupta
Ms Vidooshi is a young educator from India. She has been teaching the English Language to the Primary Grade. She believes that each individual has inherent potential, and she wants to help people suffering from mental health to tap it. She feels strongly for such people and would like to help them in whichever way she can. This is her second year working with M4M and she’s glad to be a part of it. Ms Vidooshi has always been keen to do something for society, and she’s grateful to M4M for providing her with an opportunity to work on an issue that is of great relevance in the current times.
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Awnu Shrestha
Ms Awnu is the Co-founder of the M4M and Livenow campaign, which worked to establish both campaigns as responses to mental health and pandemic since March 2020. She is also an SRHR & Disability rights activist and trainer working for more than 6 years in the issue and had been working in organisations such as Working Group on Disabilities 2030, Y-PEER Nepal and other platforms.In M4M 2020-2021 she also works as a core member mostly looking at IT and web support as well as mentoring core volunteers. In Awnu’s opinion, mental health should be introduced from younger age since school rather than only promoting when there is a pandemic or someone is actually in need because in most societies the mental health is linked with the taboo and only way to reduce the taboo and myths is to introduce the topic to children from a younger age.
She also believes that organisations should include and take care of special need groups such as young people with disabilities, the ageing population and people marginalized communities to address their mental health.
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Ayeshwini lama
Ayeshwini Lama, 23 from Bhutan is a co-founder, core member and mentor with M4M. She is a passionate advocate with her main works focused on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Mental Health. She is also a writer and believes that content creation is an effective way to promote positive community change and advocate on important issues. She considers patience and reliability to be her strongest traits and is an optimist with a vision of an equal and healthy world.