Ookkam Foundation

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ABOUT US

About Us

OOKKAM Foundation is a non-profit governmental organization mainly focusing on Mental Health & Wellbeing by the contribution of dynamic volunteers. According to WHO’s report  7.5% of Indian population suffers from any forms of mental illness during their lifetime. Most of the people are not giving importance for mental health, some people does not aware of the real meaning of mental health & not aware of what to do further if, they have any mental health problems and some people will not seek professionals help because of the existing stigma about mental illness in our society.

OOKKAM Foundation was founded in 2019 to support and working with a strong passion to provide a better platform for every individual in our society to know about mental health & well-being for creating a better today, tomorrow and the future. 

Vision

OOKKAM vision is to make sure that Mental Health and Well-being care for all. Knowledge about mental health would reaches even the layman living in remote areas and to break the stigma in our society

Mission

OOKKAM key focus areas are psychosocial education, awareness, training, counselling and community development activities

Core values

EMPATHY
We are driven by Empathy, as it is important communication ability that is at the heart of our approach to helping people with mental health and well-being need.
INTEGRITY
We communicates with the world and each other with the utmost honesty, confidentiality, professionalism and transparency in order to gain the credibility and trust necessary to effect the necessary reforms
RESPECT
We value people’s traditions and cultures, as well as their unique view points
TEAMWORK
Our strengths comes from our conviction in the collective, that working together as team produces a synergy that makes the impossible into possible.
INNOVATION
We encourage ourselves to be creative, unlearn the old, learn the new, and share our expertise in order to solve mental health and well-being related issues.