Dear Wikimedians,
As part of its ongoing program to support Wikimedians in India during the COVID-19
pandemic, CIS-A2K will provide support with access to counselling services to community
members, in order to address mental health concerns resulting from the stress and anxiety
of coping with the pandemic The A2K team has collaborated with the Institute of
Psychological Health <https://www.healthymind.org/> to provide the counselling
support. A2K would endeavour to provide support under this component of the programme as
follows :
1) *Awareness/Orientation Session on Mental Health and the Pandemic. This session will be
organised online and will be open to all Wikimedians in India looking to understand more
about mental health concerns that are prevalent at the present time, due to
pandemic-related anxiety, stress and trauma. The details of the session will be announced
here shortly, with a link to a separate event page.
2) *Individual Counselling Sessions Interested Wikimedians who wish to apply for this
support may fill out this application form.
https://forms.gle/WXLj2cR4jie6r1pc6
For more details of this programme, please visit this meta page -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_support_for_Wikimedians/India/COVI…
With best wishes,
Jayanta Nath
On behalf of A2K team,
Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme