Chris Underhill is a health entrepreneur who graduated with degrees from the University of London and University of Bristol. He worked for Voluntary Service Overseas in Zambia and has since specialized in leadership, disability, mental health and appropriate technology. He has founded several organizations that work with marginalized communities, including Thrive, Action on Disability and Development, and BasicNeeds. BasicNeeds works to enable people with mental illness or epilepsy in several countries to live normally in their communities by providing psychological support and medication since being founded in 2000. It has improved the lives of over 665,000 people with these conditions.
2. Introduction to chris underhill
1) graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of London and later with a Master of Science in International P
the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.
2) worked for Voluntary Service Overseas in Zambia, an experience which led him into a career in development where he h
specialised in leadership, disability, mental health and appropriate technology.
3)He works with marginalised people and today, he is a entrepreneur that still continues to do so today with other orginsa
his belt that caters to health in various countries.
3. More about chris underhill:
1)With regard to disability and mental health, Underhill has founded a number of organisations including Thrive working with disabled
people and medical professionals in horticulture, gardening and agriculture, Action on Disability and Development, a development
agency targeting disabled people in the third world countries.
2) he founded BasicNeeds, which works with people with mental disorders and their carers in Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Indi
Sri Lanka, Nepal, Lao PDR and Vietnam
4. What is the purpose of basic needs?
It is a group that enables people with mental illness or epilepsy to live and work normally in their respective communities ever since it
was founded in year 2000.
5. What does basic needs do?
The group provides treatment that includes psychological support and medication . It provides treatment that includes psychological
support and medication.
2)In doing this, they hope that the lives of these people will improve. To date, its programmes have improved the lives of 665,000
people with mental illness or epilepsy.
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From:http://www.basicneeds.org/