Care for Cancer

State Assam Maharashtra

Every year tens of thousands of people travel miles away from home to Tata Memorial Hospital for absence of treatment facilities closer to where they live, and the quality of care that the hospital provides.As patients & caregivers try to cope with the vast procedures and processes in cancer care, their feelings of distress are always unaddressed These suppressed emotions over a long period of time leads to emotional outbursts, anxiety, depression and slow recovery causing deaths or increased burden on care facilities. This unmet need could be harmful not only for the patient’s and caregiver’s quality of life but also in their clinical outcomes when compared to patients who manage their stress. Artscape provides customised expressive art therapy sessions to beneficiaries giving them a platform to look inward, acknowledge their emotions and express their feelings using music, movement & meditation without the use of any language Since its inception in 2015, Artscape has reached out to 6000+ patients, survivors and caregivers through 110 + sessions with the support of V Care, Cancer Patients Aid Association, Indian Cancer Society, Tata Trust,Hirandandani Foundation Charitable Trust in Hospitals and residentials homes such as Dr Ernest Borges Memorial Home, Nana Palkar Smruti Samiti, St Jude Child care centres, SCI- Guwahati, Dr. B. Borooah Cancer Institute - Guwahati

Beyond Academics

State Maharashtra

The world is urbanizing on a rapid scale. While many of these people making the move to urban centres do so in search of jobs and better lives, millions end up living in slums, and conditions for the urban poor are going from bad to worse. Today, one in six urban citizens in India live below the poverty line. In Mumbai itself over 50% of the population lives in informal settlements having little or no access to basic services: water, sanitation, power and waste management. As a result, the most badly affected by these constraints are the young people growing up in these urban slums. More than 8.1 million children live in slums. The environment puts an undue psychological distress on children leaving them extremely vulnerable to mental disorders as well as anti-social influence. Artscape recognises the dire need to intervene in these areas to make the children mentally strong and enable the children attain a state of mental well being under any given circumstance through expressive art therapy using Music, Movement, Meditation & Art In association with Light of Life trust, Artscape conducts sessions with children and adolescents in Worli, Alibaug, Karjat, Mangaon and in tribal areas of Nandurbar, Washim and Jalna

Corporate Wellness

State Maharashtra

Globally, more than 300 million people suffer from depression. Out of which more than 25% of mental illnesses arise due to workplace stress. Job stress has professional and personal consequences. It affects workplace performance, relationship with co-workers and peers, quality of work and their relationships with superiors which trickles into their personal lives too. Artscape's Corporate Wellness Programme aims at bringing together employees to participate in creatively engaging activities that help them connect with themselves, address various emotions, form bonds as a team and have fun!

Kamalika Guha Thakurta

Director

artscape2017@gmail.com

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