Arpan: Leading Peers Towards Recovery

A peer led intervention for recovery from addiction. …The philosophy of Nada India Foundation, behind initiating Arpan project has been an organization committed to the cause of young people and barrier free rehabilitation services. It is an action network of peer-based initiatives of recovering people from disability & trauma related to drugs, HIV/AIDS, violence and crime. The project was launched by Nada India to promote peer support and facilitate the education about minimum standards of care for those who want to organize rehabilitation services. The word Arpan in Sanskrit means to present or to offer in dedication. Accordingly, Nada India offers its efforts for the promotion of health, education and productivity aiming at a drug free life. As Mr.Suneel. Vatsyayan Chairman Nada India Foundation says, I have seen these people growing like children who realized that walking and falling are part of life. There is always someone for them who had given them a right to fail. Each day of recovery brought them a drop of confidence which I have seen on their faces throughout. Vatsyayan calls them as students who have passed through the University of Pain. It evolved like a process of empowerment and took the shape of social entrepreneurship of a person addicted to drugs and alcohol who lost everything and later eschewed addiction. . The idea was developed by Nada, keeping in mind the fact that when a person who passes through a deep sense of pain in his life tends to find an …

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