|  From 1992 Punar Jeevan has carried out the following 
              activities 
               1. Individual counseling                                                          13126 
                persons 
                 
                2. Marital counseling                                                               513 
                couple 
                 
                3. Psychiatric treatment                                                          4372 
                persons 
                 
                4. Rehabilitation of Alcoholics                                                  627 
                persons 
                 
                5. Referral service                                                                 2132 
                persons  
                 
                6. Awareness progrmmes                                                       
                134 villages  
                 
                7. Seminar for parents on child reariry                                    
                148 villages 
                 
                8. Counselling and career guidance                                         73 
                schools 
                 
                9. Training to volunteers on community psychiatry                    
                46 persons 
                 
                10. Counseling the psychiatric patients and their family members 
                once a week in general       hospital 
                2 hospitals 
                 
                11. Seminar for teachers 32 schools 
                 
                12. Free medical camp 8 
                 
                13. Blood donation motivation camp 9 
                 
                14. Displayed books on mental health in various places and distributed 
                leaflets on the       same topic 
                 
                15. Published handouts on the following: mental health, Alcoholism, 
                career guidance, child       rearing, 
                healthy family, Role of teachers in personality development 
                 
                16. Awareness was given to the public on the following matters 
                and certain remedy has       been 
                achieved. 
              
                - Chaining of mentally ill patients and treating them in an 
                  inhuman ways in worshiping places in Kanyakumari district.
 
                   
                 
                - Problems of mentally ill patients abandoned by pilgrims from 
                  other states
 
                   
                 
                - Lack of psychiatrist in the Govt. General Hospitals of Kanyakumari 
                  district.
 
                   
                 
                - Production and consumption of illicit liquor 'Aristam' which 
                  is the cause of many problems in Kanyakumari district.
 
                 
               
              
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