Youth Wing

Unnathi Healing Foundation believes that change in society can be brought out by the Youth. This is one of the reasons for the start of the Build India Movement initiative. This is an initiative to bring positive change in the lives of everyone in society. The Movement aims to address depression, stress, addiction, anxiety, suicidal tendencies amongst school-going adolescents, which is growing at an alarming rate. The initiative has two streams which are aimed in support and guidance for the young individuals of society.

Associations

Helpline

"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.” – Swami Vivekananda

Objectives

To Enhance the academic performance through healthy living
To Create leaders
To Strengthen life skills in the youth
To Enhance performance abilities
To Empower moral values in children
To Improve relationship with parents
To help them have the right attitude towards oneself and others.
To Increase the sense of brotherhood among youngsters.
To Face and accept challenges.
To Build social responsibilities
To Inculcate self- esteem and feeling of self-worthiness amongst the adolescents
To Make Build India Movement in a way that it is sustainable and scalable to reach all adolescents in Karnataka.

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Benefits

To Undergraduates

Helped undergraduates improve their communication & leadership skills.
They became more empathetic towards sufferings of people.
Being a role model to the adolescents made them more responsible and happier

To Adolescents

Overall well-being improved
Teachers found them happier, showing more interest in studies.
Their interactions were cordial with parents, teachers, and peers.

Reach so far

10000+

More adolescents

50+

schools

4000+

health science students

20+

health science institutions

Places Reached

Bangalore

Hoskote

Malur

Tumkur

Tiptur

Mysore

Hassan

Chitradurga

Shimoga

Shikaripura

Sirsi

Mangalore

Udupi

Moodbidri

Manipal

BIM – Stream 1 Health science students

BIM stream 1 caters to the Medical UG students of India. We help them understand the basics of interacting with adolescents as well as proper conduct. We bring the Medical Students to a local school and have each medical student interact with a school student. We then send Unnathi resource persons and teach the school students a few minor changes to implement in their lives. A month or so later we bring the medical student back to the school and have them follow up with the students. This way we are able to see the difference in students’ lives and also use these teachings for a lifetime.

BIM - Stream 2 Non-medical

BIM stream 2 caters to UG students from non- medical fields. We conduct a day-long workshop on self-empowerment for the students, and screen them before taking them to a local school. The rest of the process is the same as Stream 1. This movement will help us show the UG students how they can shape the upcoming society. By using our techniques and practices, students can learn to equip themselves with strong foundational values and practices. This in turn creates a healthier society in the mind, body and soul levels.

Holistic Well-Being for Rural Women (Care for Caregivers)

Women empowerment is not just a buzzword, but a crucial aspect of creating a healthier and fairer society. By empowering women, we can achieve holistic wellbeing and progress, benefiting not only women themselves but also their families and communities
The history of women's empowerment is long and arduous, with women fighting for their rights to vote, work, and be treated equally. The efforts of suffragettes and feminists paved the way for women's participation in politics and government, and progress was made in addressing issues such as workplace discrimination and violence against women.
However, despite these historical achievements, women still face significant challenges in many parts of the world, particularly in the realm of healthcare. While maternal and child health is often prioritized, women are still underrepresented in healthcare management, preventing them from taking an active role in preventing and treating healthcare challenges. Moreover, mental and emotional wellbeing, understanding one's own socio-cultural and religious practices, and achieving a complete state of health are still not prioritized in many communities, especially in rural areas.
At its core, women empowerment is about creating an environment where women have access to health, opportunities, and resources to support themselves and their families. By empowering women, we can create a more inclusive, fair, and healthy society for all. Join us in the fight for women's empowerment and progress towards a better future!

Creating an Enabling Environment for Women's Empowerment

To achieve women's empowerment, it is important to address these challenges and work towards creating an environment where women can thrive. This can be done through various measures, such as:

Education: Educating and training the women to understand multidimensional existence of human nature and tools/techniques to manage her physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual health.

Healthcare: provide resource and teach them Yoga, asana, pranayama, do’s and don’ts of sleep and food intake can take care of physical health.

Mental and emotional wellbeing: Providing sufficient techniques to manage oneself during one’s and family crisis periods. Handling one’s emotions and thoughts plays a crucial role in family and social life.

Social dimensions of health: Irrespective of religion, making them to understand cultural practices to lead better life in harmony.

Entrepreneurship: Women must be encouraged to start their own healing/training centers and become entrepreneurs. This can be done through access to funding, training, and other resources. In conclusion, women empowerment is crucial especially rural women to creating a just and fair society. It involves addressing the challenges that women face in multiple dimensions and creating an environment where they can thrive. By providing access to education, healthcare, political participation, legal protection, and entrepreneurship, we can work towards achieving women's empowerment and creating a better world for all.

Training sessions and its contents:
Physical and etheric health-

Unnathi Healing Foundation Kumari Shibira

Upbringing of the adolescents is one of the major challenges in 21st century, especially in Indian context, a country that is more culture and ethnicity based. Recent education system and pandemic has led to easy access of electronic gadgets to children for education and training purpose, which has put them into more addictive mode. Along with that, unscientific attraction towards the Western culture is making the teens to forget about the culture of our country and its significance.
Unnathi Healing Foundation has realized the need for this and wanted to educate the children and their parents about the significant contribution of culture to the overall personality development of their children. With the blessings of the Pontiff, Sri Sri Sri Gangadharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji of Sri Sonda Swarnavalli Matha, Sirsi; Unnathi Healing Foundation, Bangalore and Sri Swarnavalli Rajarajeshwari Mathru Mandali Bangalore organised Kumari Shibira programme for teenage girls. Sri Swarnavalli Matha has been successfully executing such programme for adolescent boys for many years in a row.

The two main objectives of the Shibira were based on the current society system

Bringing awareness about the Indian culture, its significance and daily routine.
To make them de-addict from screen addiction which was incidental for most of them.

With these 2 objectives, the entire programme was planned in such a way that the whole day they were engaged in meditation and various programmes including cognitive, psychomotor and other skills. For the first time, an attempt was made by Unnathi to support this Programme by training 22 adolescent girls with 10-days free residential camp and providing them a comprehensive exposure about our culture and tradition, ethnicity, daily routine, hygiene, science behind our culture and activities to come out of screen addiction. Most of the participants were from urban area with their roots in rural area made continuation of the practice possible.

Major activities in the Shibira:

Knowledge

Vedic tradition/Scriptures, Sattvic and tasty diet, character and personality development, implementation of Yama/Niyama

Self-discipline

Waking up early in the morning, Yoga/Pranayama/Exercise and Time management

Life skills

Helping others, Thanksgiving, “I am first to offer service” approach, “I am responsible” approach.

Indoor and outdoor games

Activities like rangoli, cooking, pooja –its process and preparation for pooja.

Personal and Social Development

Managing peer pressure, self-respect, respecting parents and imbibing value and guests handling system.

Practical guide - Managing menstrual hygiene, Food etc

Key Outcome of the Shibira

The children questionnaires and clinical assessment results executed before and after the session were as follows:

Overall well-being improved
Social responsibility in the form of food wastage, respecting elders, understanding the basics of religious and cultural practices and respecting it and I am first in serving approach significantly improved.
Life skills like self-confidence, courage, ability to handle unforeseen conditions, public speaking improved
Able to get rid of screen addiction
Sustenance of inner joy
Stress reduced drastically in the form of decreased salivary cortisol

Impact Assessment

Before conducting the camp, to have objective outcome of the study/camp – Unnathi also took responsible questionnaires, based on the World Health Organisation like WHO Wellbeing Scale, Educational Stress Scale for adolescents, Pittsburgh Sleep Scale, etc and in addition, salivary cortisol levels, which is one of the key markers of stress that was analysed before and after camp.

Conclusion

Holistic wellness program like Kumari Shibira programme are in need to vulnerable population in the setting of nuclear family and can transform the life of many children.

Those 2-3 generations in urban culture need to be supported both to the parents and children. Such training will enhance the concentration and learning ability of the child and also to lead a confident efficient life especially for the girl child to be safe and take care of them and be aware of the antisocial element to protect themselves and enhance quality life.