What is the name of your organization?
Wysa
What is the name of your solution?
DreamKit for Girl Resilience
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
A school-based phygital toolkit combining therapeutic AI chat and an interactive workbook to foster well-being and resilience in adolescent girls.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
India
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
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What specific problem are you solving?
India records the world’s largest number of suicides, and for Indians aged 15‑29 suicide is now the leading cause of death (WHO 2023). Maharashtra, with 120 million residents, reported 1,834 student suicides in 2021, the highest for any Indian state (NCRB 2022). More than 2.5 million of the state’s adolescent girls live in rural districts where mental‑health services are virtually absent and mobility is restricted by gender norms.
Government secondary schools are the only regular institutions these girls encounter, yet emotional well‑being is not part of the curriculum and teachers receive no mental‑health training. In rural Maharashtra fewer than 17 percent of girls own a smartphone (NFHS‑5, 2021). Most rely on brief, shared access at home, which blocks engagement with conventional digital interventions.
Language further widens the gap. A 2024 Wysa market scan of the 1,000 most downloaded mental‑health apps on Google Play India found only 0.7% offered any Indian‑language interface and none provided support in Marathi, the mother tongue of 83% of rural Maharashtrians.
The intersection of high psychological distress, limited device ownership, and near‑total language exclusion leaves millions of rural girls without safe, stigma‑free ways to learn coping skills or seek help at the point of need.
What is your solution?
DreamKit for Girl Resilience is a school-based phygital mental‑health toolkit in Marathi that pairs an illustrated workbook with Wysa’s therapeutic AI chatbot. Each girl receives an aspirational, interactive workbook meant to be carried beyond the school year. Its thirty weekly pages follow the academic calendar, with additional activity-based sheets, and mirror routines teachers already monitor, such as copy checking and life‑skills periods. Every page carries a QR code that opens the matching digital module on any shared smartphone.
The chatbot runs on a hybrid LLM large‑language‑model and rule‑based engine to deliver cognitive behavioural and resilience tools in Marathi, with no login so anonymity is preserved. Crisis language triggers just-in-time support and escalation pathways.
Teachers are trained and review workbook completion fortnightly, while Wysa facilitators run monthly group sessions with girls. Parents gain buy-in through QR-linked psycho-education videos that schools can circulate in existing WhatsApp groups, building trust and reinforcing healthy practices at home.
Cohort-based analytics report user behaviour and engagement data to educators and district officials, enabling policy-making. By blending familiar classroom habits, parental engagement, and always-on digital support, DreamKit delivers effective mental‑health care to adolescent girls.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
DreamKit will reach 25,000 adolescent girls aged 15–19 in 200+ government secondary schools across Raigad District, Maharashtra. These students face intense academic and family pressures yet lack safe, stigma‑free mental‑health support in Marathi. The programme pairs an aspirational workbook with an anonymous AI chatbot, giving each girl weekly practice in emotional regulation, problem-solving, and help-seeking.
We will train 2-3 teachers per school to supervise weekly workbook use and spot warning signs. For many, it provides their first structured tool to support students with emotional or life challenges, relieving the burden of navigating adolescent distress alone.
Administrators and district officials view anonymous dashboards that offer strategic insights useful for policy-making. Parents also engage through embedded psycho-educational content on the web chatbot, building trust and alignment across school and home.
Impact will be assessed with baseline and end‑line surveys using life skills, resilience, and wellbeing scales, through mixed-methods research. We aim for a 25% improvement in self‑reported life‑skills/well‑being in an academic year.
By embedding support in daily school routines and extending it to the home, DreamKit strengthens emotional well‑being and sets off positive ripple effects on attendance, resilience, personal agency, and long‑term employability.
