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A Mental health funding&advocacy agency with a focus on marginalised communities Our goal is to improve the overall well-being in India.
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The Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) is a funding organisationin the field of mental health in India. We conceptualize well-being as a combination of mental health and social factors and aspire to create a holistic mental health ecosystem in India that is accessible to everyone across social landscapes. We are a catalyzing and enabling force for organizations that strive towards this goal. We alig

n with a rights-based, psychosocial approach that consider mental health concerns as a disability. We expand on the narrow medical understandings of mental health and illness and looks at it through a systemic lens. We understand caste, gender, religion, region, ability and sexuality based oppression as a major contributor to mental health distress. We encourage community-based interventions and actively promote deinstitutionalization of mental health services. We are a feminist, LGBTQ affirmative and user-survivor centered organization.

24/05/2026

For World Schizophrenia Day, we’re featuring our partner Seven Colours Welfare Society who work with persons living with schizophrenia in rural Bihar.
In Paliganj, their work focuses on Mahadalit tolas, particularly within Musahar communities, where access to mental healthcare is shaped by distance, cost, and social marginalisation. With MHI’s support, Seven Colours is training women from within these communities to identify early signs of distress, alongside building a network of local volunteers to support follow-ups, documentation, and access to entitlements.

This model situates mental healthcare within everyday community life, foregrounding continuity of care, local access, and collective support as central to long-term wellbeing.

23/05/2026

A woman’s mental health cannot be separated from the conditions of her daily life — who controls her money, her movement, her body, her future. This is a mental health crisis, and we need to treat it as such. To know more about su***de prevention, read MHI’s report on ‘Changing the Narrative’ — link in bio.

20/05/2026

‼️CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / DEADLINE CLOSES IN 4 DAYS ‼️

MHI is inviting applications for the second edition of our digital zine dedicated to lived experiences of mental health from positions of marginalisation. This edition expands its scope to include poetry, illustration, comics, long-form writing. We welcome contributors from marginalised communities (caste, class, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, age).

Submit by 24th May; Link in bio.
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19/05/2026

We welcome the following position statement by the Indian Psychiatric Society on the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026.

We also urge other mental health associations/organisations to come forward in solidarity.

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10/05/2026

Today concludes .

Maternal care must not stop at physical health. Standing by this approach, Kerala Health System highlights the need for building support for mothers before distress becomes crisis. Maternal su***de is preventable - when mental health is treated as essential care, not an afterthought.

***deprevention

09/05/2026

Over 65% of MNREGA workers in Rajasthan are women, many of whom rely on these wages to sustain their households and support their children’s education. Every summer, rising heat exposes them to unsafe working conditions, wage discrimination, and inadequate protections while unrecognised, unpaid domestic labour continues at home.

The impact is both physical exhaustion and emotional distress, shaped by heat, economic precarity, and invisible labour.

Last year, MHI’s work under the Rajasthan Heat Project focused on strengthening advocacy for safer working conditions under MNREGA. With its replacement by the VB-RAM-G Act, the crisis now extends beyond unsafe work to the erosion of guaranteed employment itself.

In video: Amrai Devi from Paluna village Badkochra grampanchayat, Ajmer | Interviewed by and recorded by Kartik | November 2023

08/05/2026

In 2024, the Supreme Court had acknowledged gender identity as part of dignity. Yet, in 2026, a bill has been passed to ‘’help trans people’’, without even bothering to ask for any opinion of the trans community.

Pushing for control and surveillance by imposing mandated identity verification through medical boards, and limiting definitions erase many diverse trans identities. Swipe to read the statement shared by our CCF partner ***rstation based in Arunachal Pradesh - to understand how the bill impacts communities already burdened by systemic discriminations and economic as well as geographical barriers >

06/05/2026

‼️Last year, the first edition of MHI’s zine ‘Unfiltered: Mental Health from the Margins’ — held stories that don’t usually make it into mental health conversations; garment workers navigating precarity, the uneven intimacies of motherhood, caste and labour shaping everyday distress, q***r and disabled lives negotiating care.

Our second edition will continue in that direction, while opening up more ways of storytelling —across forms, languages, and contexts that are often sidelined in how mental health is documented and understood.

🔗Deadline is 24th May, click link in bio for more information.

Address

Grande Palladium, Old CST Road, Kalina
Mumbai

Telephone

+912266480500

Website

http://www.mhi.org.in/

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