We work for care of mind and success
Moner Kaj is the platform where people living with — or recovered from — mental health challenges, and neurodivergent individuals, can sell what they make, offer services, and build new skills.
We Connect Dreams to Transform Lives
In most countries — not only ours — millions of people are denied job opportunities solely because of mental illness. Moner Kaj exists to break that discrimination.
What is your mind saying?
Shop by how you feel. Every piece was made by someone who understands.
Care Packages
Skills & Services
We provide services by people with lived experience — now working to make a living.
Traditional pitha, sweets and Bengali cuisine for events and celebrations.
Hand-embroidered designs on fabric, garments, cushions, and home décor.
Bespoke handcrafted jewellery — necklaces, bangles, earrings to your design.
Custom-fit clothing and expert garment alterations by skilled tailors.
Learning Hub
Short video, audio, and illustrated modules in Bengali and English. Certificates on completion.
Nishi & Moner Kaj Team
Raju's Mother
Moner Kaj Team
Moner Kaj Support
Mental Health Team
The Changemakers
Every person is more than a diagnosis. These stories show what becomes possible when timely care, respect and fair work come together.
A First Opportunity, A Future of Her Own
Munni spent much of her adolescence living through experiences that people around her did not understand. Treatment brought significant improvement, but stigma continued to close doors. Moner Kaj offered her first employment opportunity. She can now contribute to her treatment costs, buy personal items she enjoys and take practical steps towards a more self-directed life.
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Rebuilding Her Life, One Stitch at a Time
Shahinur is a tailor whose mental health difficulties had already disrupted daily life when a fire destroyed her home and sewing machine. With evidence-based care and employment support through Moner Kaj, she is rebuilding her working life, regaining independence and once again playing a meaningful role in supporting her family.
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Measured by His Skill, Not His Illness
After a severe mental health crisis, Yunus recovered through treatment but continued to face employment discrimination. People doubted that someone with his history could sew accurately. Moner Kaj assessed him through his skill, not prejudice. Today, he is working again, earning a stable income and supporting his family.
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Safe, supported collective workplaces where artisans create, learn, and build community.
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Korail Slum
Rickshaw painting, creative therapies & cross-cultural skill exchange.
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The Garden District
Jashore Stitch Nakshi Kantha, Patali Gur & Godkhali flower crafts.
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Climate Frontline
Climate-adaptation crafts, natural resource harvesting & resilience training.
Visit this hubOur Exploration
Through innovative work and creative approaches, we explore and address climate-related mental health challenges through our products and services — merging traditional craft, sensory care, and community storytelling.
Blending Climate & Culture
We bridge climate awareness with cultural identity through art, creating emotional connections between environmental crisis and heritage.
Art · Narrative · Healing
We reimagine traditional Kantha stitching to document climate impact while preserving craft traditions and cultural expression.
Craft · Resilience · Practice
We channel climate narratives into everyday cultural life through folk art, making environmental messages part of community identity.
Folk · Awareness · Community
Protecting Endangered Heritage
Rising temperatures and floods threaten traditional textile practices. We preserve them through sustainable fashion that honors heritage.
Sustainable · Wellbeing · Wearable
Climate disasters are destroying centuries-old craft traditions. We run active programs to rescue and revive them for future generations.
Identity · Resilience · Memory
Climate change is making traditional natural materials scarce. We find sustainable alternatives that keep artisan traditions alive.
Eco-Friendly · Calming · Healing
Where Bangladesh's Heritage Crafts Turn Into Therapeutic Tools
We integrate evidence-based creative arts therapies and clinical peer support networks to scaffold functional mental health recovery. By grounding therapeutic tasks in highly structured, sensory-rich local craft traditions, we cultivate sustainable neurodivergent and psychosocial co-regulation.
We bridge heritage craft and clinical practice through a structured methodology — identifying meaningful activities, structuring them with evidence-based methods, applying them as therapeutic tools, and measuring outcomes.
Select traditional craft activities with high sensory structure — repetition, rhythm, and tactile feedback.
Apply clinical methodology to define task sequences, pacing, and sensory anchors that support regulation.
Use the structured activity as a therapeutic tool — grounding, co-regulation, and skill-building in session.
Track outcomes — symptom reduction, skill mastery, and sustained engagement — across sessions and cohorts.
Bridging robust academic psychology with the vibrant cultural reality of Bangladesh. We study emotional resilience, cognitive patterns, and vernacular linguistic mental models directly in local contexts — from bustling urban rickshaw networks to serene delta villages.
Spotlight Portals
Investigating how complex urban networks are mapped internally without digital navigational aids, revealing unique spatial cognitive strategies.
Principal Lead
Dr. Tanveer Ahmed
A systematic analysis of emotional Bengali idioms to structure native clinical frameworks that align with local concepts of mind and body.
Principal Lead
Prof. Shrabonti Roy
Ecosystem adaptation mapping. How coastal communities deploy inherited social constructs to preserve community health during weather crises.
Principal Lead
Nazia Kabir, Fellow
Bhalobasha
Unedited notes from the people who make, buy and gather here.
