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Camps, forums, lectures and broadcasts across Punjab, Ontario and Manitoba - in reverse order, most recent first.
First documented medical camp, Marhana, Tarn Taran
Camps, forums, lectures and broadcasts recorded here
Cities - Amritsar, Chandigarh, Moga, Tarn Taran, Brampton, Winnipeg
Countries where the same families are being treated
Community talk · Punjabi Community Health Services
A talk for Punjabi Community Health Services on building habits that hold - sleep, food, movement, and the daily routines that quietly decide how well someone copes. Delivered to a community audience rather than a clinical one, in the plain language families actually use at home.
Podcast · The Punjab Pod
A conversation on The Punjab Pod about healthy habits and why they matter so much in Punjabi households - what gets in the way of them, how they connect to addiction and mental health, and the small changes that are realistic to start with.
Public lecture · Winnipeg, Manitoba
A live public seminar on the relationship between drug addiction and mental health, delivered under COVID-19 distancing protocols alongside Dr. Harjot K. Chohan. The subject was the one families most often miss: that addiction and untreated mental illness usually arrive together, and treating only one of them rarely holds.
Radio interview · CKJS, Winnipeg
A broadcast conversation about the kinds of addiction seen day to day in practice, and what an addictions consultant actually does inside a hospital. Conducted entirely in Punjabi - which meant it reached the generation least likely to attend an English-language talk and most likely to be sitting with the problem at home.
Lecture series · Brampton, Ontario
Presented with Baldev Mutta, CEO of Punjabi Community Health Services, on the key issues facing South Asian communities in Canada - with mental health and addiction in the Punjabi diaspora as the central thread. Brampton is where a great many Punjab-origin families now live the second half of this story.
Lecture · Government College for Girls, Sector 42, Chandigarh
A lecture on alcoholism delivered in collaboration with PCHS leadership, aimed at mental health and addiction awareness among students. Young women are rarely the audience for these talks, though they are very often the ones who end up managing an addicted father, brother or husband.
Village visit · Alamwala, Punjab
A visit to Alamwala to meet the leadership of a local centre, assess the impact across the community, and understand what support genuinely exists on the ground versus what exists on paper. Village-level visits like this are how the work stays honest.
Site visit · PCHS, Moga, Punjab
A working visit to an established health services organisation running drug prevention programmes in schools and support initiatives in the surrounding community - to learn from a model already operating at scale rather than duplicate it.
School visit · Maqboolpura, Amritsar
Time spent with the students and teachers of a volunteer-run school in a locality that lost so many men to addiction it acquired a nickname. Supplies and uniforms are donated; the school exists because people decided the next generation would not be written off with the last one.
Public address · Legislative Grounds, Winnipeg, Manitoba
An address at the official commemoration on the nature of addiction and what effective community support actually looks like - delivered on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature, to an audience of the Punjabi community and the wider public together.
Youth forum · Khalsa College, Amritsar
A forum with National Service Scheme students on vocational rehabilitation for people in the recovery phase - the part of the problem almost nobody funds. Detox without a job, a purpose and a place to go back to is a revolving door, and the students knew it before we said it.
Medical camp · Marhana, Tarn Taran, Punjab
Supported by Guru Nanak Super Specialty Hospital: blood pressure checks, blood sugar assessment, consultation and pharmaceutical services provided free to the village. For many of those seen, it was the first blood pressure reading they had ever had.
Medical camp · Marhana, Tarn Taran, Punjab
The first camp at Marhana, run with Guru Nanak Super Specialty Hospital. Screening, consultation and medication under a canopy beside a mobile unit - and the conversations at that table are what turned an annual visit into a decade of addiction work.
Camps, lectures and school sessions are planned a year ahead around the annual visit. If you can open a door locally, that is usually the only missing piece.
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