Project Maanasi - The “Project Maanasi” is a mission to deliver mental health and primary care services to poor rural women and children in southern India. The goal of the program has been to provide low cost or free care to villagers, sustained outreach to those who cannot access the clinic, and educate patients and others about seeking care to improve their lives.

This long-term project was founded in 1999 by Dr. Geetha Jayaram, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA and a member of this club. She pioneered this innovative concept of delivering quality mental health in rural India with a simplistic treatment practice involving health workers connected to the centrally located hub clinic “Maanasi Clinic”. The World Health Organization (WHO) is recognizing the "Maanasi Model" as one of the models for providing mental health care in developing nations. For additional information on Project Maanasi, go to www.ProjectMaanasi.org.