Activities

The present activities of Nirmal Jyoti are the following:

Awareness programme in schools and slums

Nirmal Jyoti’s staff members visit schools and Anganwadi and arrange classes for students and parents on mental health and hygiene. Such classes are instrumental in finding out persons with mental health issues.

Counselling

Nirmal Jyoti provides counselling facility for those who seek for and arranges counselling sessions in schools.

Medical support

After assessing the financial background of the psychiatric patients, Nirmal Jyoti makes the medicines available to the deserving needy patients.

Hospitalisation of patients

Nirmal Jyoti helps the persons with mental health issues to approach clinical practitioner and if necessary to get admitted in the hospital.

Follow up programme

After getting discharged from the hospital Nirmal Jyoti helps the patients to continue the regular follow-ups. Nirmal Jyoti takes effort to build up support system for the psychiatric patients through house visits, giving timely intervention and counselling to the family members and relatives. The patients who are associated with Nirmal Jyoti are introduced to a weekly get together which has sessions of mutual sharing, group therapy, group games etc.

‘Five loaves’; Street food programme

  Nirmal Jyoti provides food parcel (puris & potato curry) to around 25-30 persons daily, except Sundays. The beneficiaries are the vagabonds in the different streets of Bhopal. Purpose of this programme is to identify the mentally ill among the vagabonds and to build up a rapport with them which can result in providing medical treatment.