Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust

A community based organization founded in 1995, Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust operates from seven permanent sites to prevent and treat HIV and other opportunistic infections affecting injecting drug users in Mumbai. Committed to a philosophy of harm reduction, a team of outreach workers and peer educators, who are former or current drug users, reach out to the street based drug using community. Needle exchange, abscess management, and safe injecting education services are initiated through this point of first contact.Medical staff and social workers provide necessary followup treatment, counseling, and distribution of Opioid Substitution Therapy at the lifeline of Sankalp, our day centres Mumbai Central, Kurla, Kalyan, and Bhiwandi. , , Sankalp also runs a programme for injecting drug users in prisons, where it promotes awareness, encourages adherence to antiretroviral therapy, and offers counselling and medical support. There is a 24 hour critical care centre for drug users who are seriously ill and in need of consistent medical and psychological treatment. , , Sankalp promotes various skills training and income generation projects. The latest venture, Project Hunar, provides recovering drug users with a residential computer training programme where they receive help in developing related professional skills and participation in a variety of educational and empowerment sessions. In addition, Sankalp has facilitated the training of several rehabilitated clients in various craft making skills, which enables them to bring in modest livelihoods. Sankalp is committed to seeking out those in need, supporting those in recovery, and strengthening its clients, so that they too can contribute positively in society.