Get involved

This work is not done alone

Every camp, lecture and school visit on this site happened because someone local opened a door, lent a room, or gave up a weekend.

Three ways in

Pick the one that fits your situation

Volunteer

Join a camp in Punjab

Clinicians, pharmacists, nurses and students are all useful at a camp — and so are people who can simply organise a queue, record readings and speak Punjabi. Camps run during the annual visit; get in touch well ahead so we can plan around your dates.

Partner

Host a lecture or session

Gurdwaras, colleges, schools, community organisations and employers — if you have an audience that needs to hear about addiction and mental health from a physician who speaks Punjabi, we will build the session around them.

Propose a session →

Support

Fund a camp or a school

Medication, screening supplies, transport, school books and uniforms — the costs are small and unglamorous, and they are what determines whether a camp happens at all. Get in touch and I will tell you exactly what is needed this year.

Ask what is needed →

If you are in the diaspora

The most useful thing you can do costs nothing

Talk about it. Openly, at home, using the actual words. A very large share of the harm here comes from delay, and almost all of that delay comes from shame.

Say the word “addiction” in your house before you need to
Share the resources page with someone who is managing this quietly
Ask your gurdwara or community centre to host a session
Stop treating a relapse as a scandal — it is a clinical event, not a disgrace

A note on donations

There is no online donation button on this site, deliberately. Needs change year to year, and it matters more that support is matched to what a specific camp or school actually requires than that money arrives in a general pot. If you would like to contribute, email me and I will tell you plainly what is needed, what it costs, and where it goes.