How You Can Help

SCARF acknowledges with gratitude, the immense support from the public, which has enabled us to increase our services manifold from the humble beginnings in 1984. We seek your continued support and cooperation to expand these activities further into the 21st century.

Our priorities for funding are as below:

1. Community out reach

This is  a very important activity of SCARF, reaching out  to the very poor and marginalized, in urban slums and rural communities.  We are at present treating over  1000 persons in this programme.
We need your help to continue this and would  appreciate your support for any of the following:

  • Travel expenses to and from camps =   Rs 5000 per month.
  • Free medicines given at the camps  =   Rs 75,000 per month.
  • Rehabilitation of one poor patient =   Rs 2000 per month.

2. Outpatient Department

All services in the OPD are free of cost and nearly a third of those who attend it are given free medicines. You can choose to sponsor:

  • Cost of medication = Rs 1000 per month 
  • Sponsoring the education of a child of a mentally disabled person = Rs 3000 per year.

3. SCARF's Residential Centers

We offer free treatment to a percentage of patients in our three residential centres. Their needs are:

  • Cost of medicines :  Rs 1000/- per month
  • Food and personal expenses: Rs 2000/- per month
    We will be happy to send the donors periodic reports on the sponsored patient.
  • Maintenance and upkeep of buildings which are aging: Rs 1 lakh per year.
  • A Generator to ensure continuous power supply in the Thiruverkadu centre which has frequent disruptions in power, especially in the hot summer months: Rs 4 lakhs.

4. Awareness

  • Cost of awareness programmes during the mental health week :  Rs 25, 000/-
  • Printing of awareness material in english and tamil : Rs 30, 000/-

5. Membership at SCARF

Become a life member by paying Rs 2,000 or an  institutional member by paying  Rs 10,000  By becoming a member, you have access to SCARF’s publications, newsletter and information about all events.

6. Other ways

The following are some of the ways in which you can help us do this:

  • Write about Mental Illness: If you have skills in writing and speaking, you could use them to dispel misconceptions about mental illnesses and provide the right information. Our Public Education department will be too happy to help you with this.
  • Employ the improved mentally ill: If you are an employer having your own business, you can consider employing improved patients and help rehabilitate a disabled individual.
  • Make your family aware: If anybody in your family is suffering from schizophrenia, you can come over to SCARF and enlist in the family educational program that we run. This would certainly help you cope better with your ill relative.
  • Take up research: If you are a young mental health professional aspiring to do research in the field of mental health, we will be happy to offer you our technical guidance for a nominal fee.
  • Help them with leisure activities: If you have some time to spare, you can arrange recreational programmes for our clients.


Please make your cheques/DD payable to

Schizophrenia Research Foundation (India)
R-7A North Main Road, Anna Nagar West (Extn.) Chennai 600 101. Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone : (091)(044) 26151073, (091)(044) 26153971

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