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The Banyan
@banyanbalm
An NGO serving people experiencing intersections of homelessness, psychosocial distress, and disabilities in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra and beyond.
Aug 25, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#GoodPeopleDoingGoodWork—a series recognising solidarities & collective power as essential to our collective wellbeing through crises & beyond.

Today, we thank Ms. Divyadarshini for her invaluable allyship, friendship, and collaborations with The Banyan.

Thread ⬇️ “She’s a superstar,” our senior leader said, describing Dharmapuri's Collector Ms. Divyadarshini.

“If you meet her with an idea today, she’ll enable executing it by tomorrow. That’s how she is. She works at jet-speed and gets things done — always with a focus on accessibility.”
Jun 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Home Again has been #acknowledged by @WHO as one of the 25 best practices of Community Mental Health Services from around the world.
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#HomeAgain #GoodPractice #Values #Principles
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@MichelleFunk3 The compilation provides in-depth information on the elements that contribute towards the development of good practice services that meet international human rights standards and that promote a person-centred, recovery approach.
Jun 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Judith Heumann a lifelong #advocate for rights of disabled people — one of the most influential voices in the disability rights movement said — "Independent living is not doing things by yourself. It is being in #charge of how things are done."
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#UserLed #PeerLeaders #HomeAgain This quote describes the #essence behind Home Again as an approach.
Jun 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Read this article in @NewIndianXpress which highlights the recent listing of Home Again as a good practice innovation by @WHO, including quotes from #PallaviRohatgi, #VanithaRajesh of @banyanbalm & @DesirajuKeshav.
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@MichelleFunk3 “A large number of homeless people with mental health issues admitted in institutions are unable to get out of these institutions due to factors like poverty and homelessness. To address this, we piloted the Home Again project in 2015,” said Pallavi Rohatgi, @banyanbalm.
Mar 8, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Gender based discrimination and unremitting violence eliminates spaces for women and girls to exist and be as we are.
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Illustration Credit: @prrr_butt
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✊ #InternationalWomensDay #INWD2020 Four women of different ages in colourful clothing and two dogs are occupying space under a tree against a brick wall. Women are required to labour tirelessly, take up multiple roles, navigate abuse and assault in power less relationships and conform to expectations set by others.
Jan 27, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A quarter of a million people with psychosocial disabilities were killed, nearly half a million sterilised - the majority among them those diagnosed with schizophrenia, a label that automatically devalued worth based on eugenics propaganda.
#NeverAgain #HolocaustMemorialDay Studies indicate that between 1939 to 1955, an estimate of 220 000 - 269 000 people (equalling 73% to 100% of individuals with schizophrenia in Germany) were marked as "untermenschen, or subhuman", categorized as expendable and exterminated.
Oct 9, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#NationalReportOnLongStay #WorldMentalHealthDay
Survey of service users across 43 state psychiatric hospitals, 24 states shows 36.25% of people had lived within the confines of these facilities for one year or more. Median duration of stay was 6 years; 1 in 10 had lived within these psychiatric facilities for 25 years or more, including one person who had spent all of 62 years of her life inside an institution.