Aasra Annual returns to Befrienders Worldwide Year 2012 (Jan to Dec)
Aasra continues to enjoy wide and appreciative coverage in the national and international news media both English and Regional languages -Times of india, Telegraph, Indian Express, DNA, Midday, The Hindustan times, Maharashtra Times, Samna, Malayala manorama, Free press journal, the afternoon, local and national vernacular papers, Le Monde, Europa, australian Radio, London Times, Al jazeera, Bindaas, CnnIBN, Readers Digest, The Week, Open, Mumbai Mirror, Outlook, BBC, NDTV, IBNLokmat, Headlines Today, Radio mirchi, radio star, radio midday, asian age, Sunday midday , Midday, Savvy, Timeout, Business india, Mint, Newsweek Asia, Business International,etc.
Befrienders Worldwide
Annual Centre Information
Return
&
Membership Renewal
Annual Return of Centres
Each Centre is
required to compile and submit an Annual
Return. Receipt of your Annual
Return also indicates your desire to continue your membership of Befrienders
Worldwide (BW). The information requested by BW ensures adherence to the
Charter and the overall desire to provide the best possible service to those in
need of emotional support, however they may wish to access it throughout the
world, whilst supported by members of Samaritans UK/ ROI and Befrienders
Worldwide.
The Annual Return will also provide each
Centre with comprehensive information for its own use, enabling an assessment
as to how it is performing, what has changed in the previous year, what changes
it may wish to make etc. The monitoring of contact statistics enables Centres
to facilitate changes to their services if applicable or necessary. For
consistency please provide information for a calendar year (i.e. year starts in
January)
Year for this return…………………2012………………
Region (BW definition)……South Asia…
BW Certificate No:01070945………………………..
Contact Information
Name of Centre:……………AASRA………………………………………………………………..
Postal Address:…………104, SUNRISE ARCADE, PLOT 100,
SECTOR 16, KOPARKHAIRANE, NAVI MUMBAI 400709
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
Country:…INDIA………Post Code…400709………………………
Office No:……………91-22-27546667.. (24x7)
Phone No:(Helpline)
91-22-27546669……(24x7)…………………………
Fax No: None
Centre Email address:…aasrahelpline@yahoo.com…….
Youtube channels:
aasrahelpline
Aasradotinfo
Aasrasuicideprevention
Blog: aasrasuicideprevention.blogspot.in
SaveALifePreventaSuiicde.blogspot.in
Aasrangoforum.blogspot.in
Website:
www.aasra.info
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/aasrasuicideprevention
Twiter:
www.twitter.com/aasradotinfo
Centre Information to be included on Befrienders
Worldwide website (if
different to that above)
Name of Centre:…AASRA…………..
Postal Address:……104 SUNRISE ARCADE, PLOT 100, SECTOR
16, KOPARKHAIRANE, NAVI MUMBAI-MAHARASHTRA…………………………………………………………………………………………………
Country:……………………INDIA…………………Post Code………400709
Telephone Nos:
Helpline No…………91-22-27546669…(24x7).. Office…91-22-27546667..
Fax…………NONE…
Centre Email address:…aasrahelpline@yahoo.com.
Web site address:……www.aasra.info………………
Helpline email (if used)……aasrahelpline@yahoo.com....
Volunteer Information
Number of Volunteers 20 plus 26 substitute
volunteers(non-regular) plus 10 admin/publicity/fundraising volns….Number of
paid staff…None….
Roles of paid staff (include hours employed for each
person): None
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Operational Information
Hours of operation………24 hours all days……………
Number of Volunteers on duty (for helpline)when Centre
is operational: 20 + 18 rota substitutes
How people in need contact you.
|
Type
of Contact
|
Number
of contacts (not %)
|
|
Telephone
|
84,657
|
|
Face- face
|
4644
|
|
Letter
|
782
|
|
Email
|
5109
|
|
Text
|
412
|
|
other
|
765
|
|
Total number of contacts
|
96,369
|
Define other…contact programs, workshops, outreach,
awareness, visits to institutions, outreach events
contacts expressing suicidal thoughts…89,078……………………………………….
Number of female contacts…42,167… Number of male
contacts…46,911….
Special programmes you run?.. multi-level
Workshops..for schools , degree and professional colleges, NGO staff,
corporates etc. Outreach programmes with the institutionalised and the
marginalized, Awareness programmes in hospices, housing societies, educational
institutions and other organisations. Also support group programmes ..suicide
affected families, suicide survivors and HIV positive, bi-annual suicide
prevention training programs for the general public, quarterly Talks at HELP
library, annual programs for Suicide prevention day, suicide prevention week,
Joy of Giving Week, mental health Day/week, World Schizophrenia day, World
Volunteer day. And programs with NGO Forum including legal aid seminar for
women, skill set training for the unemployed and marginalised, leadership
training for grassroots workers, skill based training for the economically
backward, medical camps, volunteer training, support services for MDACS HIV
helpline, Basic psychology-understanding the human mind training for general
public, soft skills and suicide prevention training for Medical students and
BPO workers., Suicide prevention training for NGO staff, Peer support training
for volunteer school students..
Funding
Where do you get your funding?........Individual
donors............................................................................
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Annual running costs (local currency)……Rs. 2,00,000(approx)………………….
Is your Centre a registered charity/ Trust/
Incorporated Society/recognised NGO? Yes/No Information/
Charity Number (if applicable):……E-2047 registered as a charitable trust
under the Maharashtra charities act 1960
National Information
Is there a National body? Yes
Name of National Body……Befrienders India…..
Other Organisations your Centre is associated with or
has on going contact with …………………………………………NGO forum of Navi Mumbai, 1298 womens
helpline, childline, hiv aids network of ngos, MDACS, Nareshwadi
Orphanage,.Mumbai helplines network, national helplines network, Bombay United,
TISS, Nirmala Niketan, India Mental Health network, Karmayog.org,
GiveIndia.org, Rotaract club, Rotary club, YMCA, Giants International, Lions,
Lioness etc.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Twinning Information
Are you twinned with another
Centre?........no............If yes, which one?.........................
If no, would you be interested in having a Twin? Yes
Have you had contact with your Twin this year? No
Your Centre’s Twinning contact person……Shivanand
Muthalkar …..
Contact details (if different to that of your Centre)
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Further information
Other information you may wish to share with fellow
members about your Centre
Aasra completed 14
years of operations with over 3 lakh
callers and counting. We had a candle lighting ceremony with a renewal of the
Aasra pledge for all the volunteers. And as usual, we celebrated in muted
fashion. Just a cake cutting and sharing of light snacks and soft-drinks.
Participated in
the annual Mumbai Marathon, Kharghar , Vashi Marathons, annual Cycle marathon, and generated publicity for the centre’s
services.
For Suicide prevention day this year , as we do every year, we conducted a week long poster and poetry competition for the 9th and 10th std students –topics were life is beautiful, hurdles are the stepping stones to success (for the posters) and Life, stress and coping for the poetry competition.
The events were judged and prizes were awarded on the 10th of sept- when we had a seminar on ‘Suicide and the youth’, a brief speech by Johnson and candle lighting. The event was given wide coverage in the newspapers Asian Age, HT and on TV by Zee TV. This year too, Johnson also was on a live chat organised by Times wellness and radio Mirchi, 92.5 FM, Radio city.
Currently we are involved in a project on HIV and suicide, assisting the Apex HIV prevention body MDACS in support counselling for the HIIV infected. We continue to conduct workshops for NGO’s , school and college students, charitable institutions and corporates- completed 45 such workshops in the 2011. We continue to stress on awareness also and go about distributing bookmarks and leaflets at public events like Film festivals, Theatre festivals, Mumbai festival, Bandra Festival etc. We do so at the malls and bookshops too.
For Suicide prevention day this year , as we do every year, we conducted a week long poster and poetry competition for the 9th and 10th std students –topics were life is beautiful, hurdles are the stepping stones to success (for the posters) and Life, stress and coping for the poetry competition.
The events were judged and prizes were awarded on the 10th of sept- when we had a seminar on ‘Suicide and the youth’, a brief speech by Johnson and candle lighting. The event was given wide coverage in the newspapers Asian Age, HT and on TV by Zee TV. This year too, Johnson also was on a live chat organised by Times wellness and radio Mirchi, 92.5 FM, Radio city.
Currently we are involved in a project on HIV and suicide, assisting the Apex HIV prevention body MDACS in support counselling for the HIIV infected. We continue to conduct workshops for NGO’s , school and college students, charitable institutions and corporates- completed 45 such workshops in the 2011. We continue to stress on awareness also and go about distributing bookmarks and leaflets at public events like Film festivals, Theatre festivals, Mumbai festival, Bandra Festival etc. We do so at the malls and bookshops too.
Aasra volunteers
also sold hand crafted items at the Friday fleamarket stalls in several malls.
Add-on training
workshops for volunteers, friends and family Topics covered ‘Understanding
Basic Psychology’, ‘Child Psychology’, ‘Communication skills’
Suicide Survivors
Day prog on Nov 20- (as we do every year)‘Re-engaging with Life’ – celebrating
suicide survivors day, Sharing of experiences by victims and families affected
by suicide, enactment, audio visual documentary(DVD) presentation(1 and 1/2
hr) from American Foundation for Suicide
Prevention and classical dance performance,kuchipudi by noted danseuse Jeroo
Chavda. We also had a play reading of noted filmmaker, playwright and
journalist Khalid Mohammed’s play based on Aasra.
In year,2011, we conducted 38 workshops for
teachers and students in schools and colleges SIES college, ICL college ,army
school, Cathedral school, SIES school, Fr.agnel, St Xaviers, Nagpur Medical
college, Navodaya school, New Horizon school, Ded and Bed colleges, Etc.Aasra
was also invited for consultations with ORF foundation and TISS to discuss
modalities and devise programs to prevent the increasing number of student
suicides in the country. Aasra continues to run support group services for the
mentally ill and their families in different nodes accross mumbai and navi
mumbai. So far 12 are running concurrently.
For 2012 sept 10
suicide prevention day program-, as is our usual practice, we organised full day poster exhibitions and
awareneess drives accross 10 malls in Navi mumbai. Sept 13 we completed 14
years as an organisation and we held a candlelight march in the evening. For
mental health week we held an awareneess talk at HELP library, had a public
program at Bandra promenade and IMC.
In addition to
this our online campaigns on Twitter, Facebook, blogspot, Linked in, google
plus helps generate calls from all over the world.
Talks ore on with
the Indian Embassies in the GCC countries for collaborative suicide prevention
efforts in the Gulf.
Aasra continues to enjoy wide and appreciative coverage in the national and international news media both English and Regional languages -Times of india, Telegraph, Indian Express, DNA, Midday, The Hindustan times, Maharashtra Times, Samna, Malayala manorama, Free press journal, the afternoon, local and national vernacular papers, Le Monde, Europa, australian Radio, London Times, Al jazeera, Bindaas, CnnIBN, Readers Digest, The Week, Open, Mumbai Mirror, Outlook, BBC, NDTV, IBNLokmat, Headlines Today, Radio mirchi, radio star, radio midday, asian age, Sunday midday , Midday, Savvy, Timeout, Business india, Mint, Newsweek Asia, Business International,etc.
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