Project SEMICOLON is dedicated to the prevention of suicide. A semicolon is used whenever the author chooses NOT to end a sentence. We are the authors of our own lives, not to end it just yet.

 

We believe that everyone has a role to play in preventing suicide through raising public awareness, educating communities, and equipping every person with the right tools, and thereby save lives. The project was launched on 3rd September 2017 which continued until the 10th of September 2017.

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At the Rotaract club of Caduceus, we began an online portal where groups of interested members were formed. About 90 members participated in the project.  The members of the group were encouraged to share their muses and articles by emails which were then published on the facebook page.

 

Motivational and inspirational messages are still being forwarded and penned by our fellow members till date, making the people in crisis believe that they are not alone, and ending life is not even an option. Many of our members have shared their experiences and their battle to such life threatening thoughts and have helped many people to add a semicolon to their life instead of a full stop.

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A lot has been spoken about mental health and we considered that it would be good to know our member’s thoughts on the same and it actually turned out to much more positive than we expected.

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A special thanks to Gayatri Gaikwad for managing this project so well that it has still been in past over a month.