HOW IT ALL BEGAN

Ria Patel, the founder of Project Shakti, is an Indian American currently in high school. When she turned 16, she was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression Disorder. After getting diagnosed, she received many complaints from her family and friends in the South Asian community for reaching out to professional child psychiatrists. South Asians around her kept stereotyping her and believing that mental health should be kept quiet, but Ria did not want to be quiet, and that's how,Project Shakti was born!