About Bapu Trust

The Bapu Group is, located in Pune city, India. Bapu works with multiple stakeholders within the Development sector on the inclusion of persons with mental health issues and psychosocial disabilities, including

1.Disabilities  2.Policy and Law  3.Poverty  4.Gender   5.Marginalization  6.Urbanization  7.Community Development  8.Health  9.Social Justice  10.Livelihoods  11.Human Rights  12.Education

• • Bapu Group was started as a novel idea in advocacy for human rights-based community mental health services. Our domains of work include Research, Training, Enabling dialogue platforms in India and Asia on policy issues, and innovative services in Development. ‘Seher’, the service wing of Bapu Group, has been working in urban community mental health. We work in collaboration with Pune Municipal Corporation in several low-income pockets of Pune, through ‘Community Wellness Centers’.
  • Bapu Group has always straddled two universes of practice – non-medical healing practice and social justice practice. In building synergy across these two dynamic universes, the Bapu has been strongly grounded in the two pillars of contemporary healing arts and disability thinking – Arts Based Therapy [ABT] and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [UNCRPD].
  • For the last 10 years, Bapu Group has focused on realizing the full potential of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), especially Article 19 (Living independently and being included in communities). We have been involved in developing social innovations for the full inclusion of persons with mental health problems and psychosocial disabilities. Bapu Group, working with a cross-disability perspective, offers several opportunities for engagement with communities, including direct community inclusion services, advocacy, research, training, and leadership development in disability inclusion.
  • Visit www.baputrust.com for more information.