EDUCAST and Taskeen will work together to improve mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable
communities using innovative technologies in which EDUCAST will provide access through
technological interfaces and Taskeen will provide the mental health expertise.
Potential Impact:
The partnership can benefit our beneficiaries in the following manner:
1.) Increase mental health awareness of beneficiaries
2.) Increase access to mental health support for beneficiaries.
The partnership can benefit our organizations in the following manner:
1.) Taskeen will have increased reach leading to improved impact of their programs.
2.) EDUCAST will be able to fill an important gap in their service and integrate mental health in
their programs.
3.) Joint fundraising efforts can ensure sustainability.
Potential Activities:
1.) Covid mental health: EDUCAST has access to a vast number of COVID patients through
its COVID program collaboration with the Sindh Government. Taskeen can support
EDUCAST by providing COVID mental health educational videos that EDUCAST can
leverage on its platforms.
2.) Disaster response mental health: Taskeen can support EDUCAST’s work in Yemen on
maternal and child health by providing mental health educational videos (translated by
EDUCAST into Arabic) and recordings of mental health workshops (translated into Arabic).
Taskeen will only provide support locally and will not be involved on ground in Yemen.
3.) Geriatric mental health: Taskeen can support EDUCAST’s work in geriatric support by
helping them train their staff in geriatric mental health concerns and developing educational
content for caregivers of the elderly.
4.) Joint fundraising for projects: EDUCAST and Taskeen will work together for mutually
beneficial fundraising efforts. Fundraising efforts will be based on project-to-project basis. If
an organization identifies a fundraising opportunity, they will inform the other party and
develop a combined fundraising proposal with agreed upon budgets. The organization
applying will be the principal recipient with the partner serving as the sub-grantee and will
receive funds from the organization.