Meet BasicNeeds: “BasicNeeds is the only UK based international non-profit organisation, and one of the few in the world, specifically working to make change on the issue of mental illness and epilepsy in developing countries. … We implement a community based and people-oriented model which emphasises the importance of enabling people with mental illness and epilepsy to re-integrate successfully into their families and communities, and re-gain their own self-respect and dignity by being an economic asset to their families.”

So far, the organisation has directly helped over 118,700 people who are mentally ill or have epilepsy.