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Kalam's Pen, Husain's Brush to Help Mentally Challenged Women
The community mental health centre set up by Banyan at a cost of about Rs.20 million in Kovalam village, about 50 km south of Chennai, will also house the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM).
The protected community centre with cottages for 60 residents, who are very ill but cannot be returned to their families, have been set up with contributions from a dozen charities.
Among them are e-Funds, Willingdon Trust, Ratan Tata Trust, Floridon Trust, Zurich Financial Services Trust, Rangoonwalla Trust and CIM Germany.
Mor said that 1,000 or 2,000 challenged women "is not a small number in a country of our size. Banyan is now looking at how the decade of effort can be taken forward and Banyan is looking at a sustainable model."
Spice Route will be the commercial outlet for products made by those sheltered by Banyan.
Gopikumar said Banyan hoped to set an example that could be emulated across the country, especially in rural India. "We want to extend general medical services too at our health centres. We want every district in the country to have shelters for the destitute and mentally challenged."
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