REVIVE is the rehabilitation and pain relief initiative of Prakhyata Abhinand Charitable Trust (PACT India), created to provide affordable, quality rehabilitation while helping sustain PACT India’s mission of supporting children with special needs.

In 2013, I started REVIVE Rehabilitation and Pain Relief Clinic with one simple belief: that quality rehabilitation shouldn’t be a luxury. Middle-class families deserved care that helped them regain independence and dignity, without the financial strain that so often comes with it.

Over the years, more than 4,000 people walked through our doors. Each one carried a different story of pain and perseverance. And with every session, I saw the same thing happen, again and again: someone rediscovering their ability to live life on their own terms.

Then came 2020.

Alongside my co-founder Reuban Daniel, we founded Prakhyata Abhinand Charitable Trust (PACT India), to serve orphaned, abandoned, and surrendered children with special needs. We had spent months in planning, consultations, and preparation. We were ready.

And then the world stopped.

COVID-19 disrupted everything we had built momentum for. Raising funds was a challenge Movement was restricted. But one thing never wavered: the belief that children with special needs could not be left waiting.

So we made a decision that would reshape REVIVE’s purpose entirely. Instead of remaining only a clinic, REVIVE became something more, a self-sustaining engine for PACT India’s work. Every consultation, every therapy session, every small step in someone’s recovery began quietly funding another child’s journey toward hope.

Today, REVIVE generates nearly 10% of PACT India’s annual operating budget. It’s a number that looks modest on a spreadsheet. But behind it is something I find genuinely moving: a community healing itself, and in doing so, creating the capacity to care for a community that cannot yet advocate for itself.

That’s still the work. One person, one family, one child at a time.

Merlyn Hilda J