RAHI Foundation

RAHI Foundation, whose name refers to “Recovering and Healing from Incest,” is a support centre based in New Delhi, India. Its work is focused on people who have survived incest and related childhood sexual abuse, with an emphasis on psychological, emotional, sexual, and spiritual recovery. Rather than operating as a conventional consumer-facing brand, RAHI is a specialist social-support and mental-health organization whose identity is closely associated with survivor-centred services, professional guidance, and efforts to build broader support capacity in India. The foundation was established in August 1996 by Anuja Gupta and Ashwini Ailawadi. Its creation followed a Fellowship for Population Innovations awarded to Anuja Gupta by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Gupta is identified as RAHI’s director in the available reference material. The organization’s founding trustees were Anuja Gupta and Jaya Sharma. These origins connected RAHI to an effort to bring greater institutional attention to a subject that had received limited public and professional recognition in India. RAHI’s direct services include individual and group support for survivors. The organization’s approach recognizes that recovery can involve multiple dimensions of a survivor’s life, including mental and emotional wellbeing, sexuality, personal relationships, and spirituality. Group work is an important part of its model, providing a setting in which survivors can receive mutual support and address experiences that may be difficult to discuss in isolation. In addition to working directly with survivors, RAHI provides consultation and supervision to other individuals and organizations dealing with incest cases. It supports people and groups interested in establishing survivor groups in other parts of India, including during the conceptualization and planning stages. The foundation can also offer clinical supervision and guidance concerning the operation of such groups. This makes its role broader than that of a single local counselling centre: it also functions as a source of specialist knowledge and practice support for professionals, non-governmental organizations, and emerging survivor-support initiatives. RAHI additionally provides individual supervision to practitioners and other NGOs working with incest-related cases. Through this activity, the organization contributes to professional development and to the consistency and quality of services available to survivors. The available material does not provide reliable information about its current leadership, funding, legal structure, present programme scale, or whether it continues to operate, so those details remain unconfirmed. No listed-company information, commercial parent, stock ticker, or verified official website is identified in the supplied sources.

RAHI Foundation was established in August 1996 in New Delhi, India, by Anuja Gupta and Ashwini Ailawadi. Its formation was connected to a Fellowship for Population Innovations received by Gupta from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowship provided the basis for developing an organization dedicated to addressing the needs of incest survivors. Gupta is identified in the available reference material as RAHI’s director, while Gupta and Jaya Sharma were the foundation’s founding trustees. From its establishment, RAHI’s purpose was to provide support for survivors across several dimensions of recovery. The centre offers individual and group services directed toward psychological, emotional, sexual, and spiritual healing. This combination indicates a broad recovery framework rather than a narrowly clinical service. Group support is particularly significant because it creates a structured setting in which survivors can share experiences and develop mutual understanding. RAHI’s work also extends beyond direct service delivery. The organization offers consultation and supervision to individuals and groups working with incest survivors. It cooperates with people and organizations that want to establish survivor groups in other parts of India, contributing during the conceptualization and planning phases and providing clinical supervision and operational guidance once groups are formed. It also offers individual supervision to practitioners and non-governmental organizations handling incest cases. This combination of survivor services, group development, and professional supervision positions RAHI as both a support centre and a specialist resource for the wider field. Its activities help connect direct recovery work with the development of practitioner expertise and local support structures. The available reference material does not document later organizational milestones, programme expansion, changes in trusteeship, current operating status, or a verified official web presence. Consequently, the foundation’s post-establishment history and present-day activities cannot be stated with confidence.

• 1996

  RAHI Foundation established

  [1]RAHI Foundationen.wikipedia.org

  RAHI Foundation was founded in August in New Delhi by Anuja Gupta and Ashwini Ailawadi, with a mission centred on support and recovery for incest survivors.

• 1996

  Founding trustees identified

  [1]RAHI Foundationen.wikipedia.org

  Anuja Gupta and Jaya Sharma were identified as the organization’s founding trustees.

A specialist, survivor-centred support and capacity-building organization addressing the psychological, emotional, sexual, and spiritual recovery of incest survivors in India.

• Support service · 1996

  Individual survivor support

  Individual services intended to support survivors of incest in psychological, emotional, sexual, and spiritual recovery. The available source does not specify the precise therapeutic methods, eligibility rules, staffing model, or current availability.

• Peer-support service · 1996

  Survivor group services

  Group-based support for survivors of incest. RAHI also assists people and organizations seeking to create survivor groups elsewhere in India, including through planning support, clinical supervision, and guidance on running the groups.

• Professional support · 1996

  Professional consultation and supervision

  Consultation and supervision for practitioners, individuals, and non-governmental organizations working with incest cases. The service is intended to strengthen casework and provide specialist guidance, although the source does not describe its current format or scope.

1. 1RAHI Foundationen.wikipedia.org