Our mission is to understand human suffering, and alleviate it

We believe that human suffering is tragic, important, too often ignored, under-served and mis-understood.

We want to bring together citizens, researchers, charities, clinicians, services and public officials to change that story

Projects we are focusing on

The State of Suffering 2025 Report

100 stories of suffering

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Real human stories are powerful. We want to collect more stories and represent diverse voices and experiences of intense suffering. We believe this will help us to better understand what is going on and connect to solutions.