Vishalatchi a/p Arunagiri (Malaysia)

Vishalatchi Arunagiri (Visha) has been on the journey of Schizophrenia for the past eight years. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 19 years old and although she still struggles with the illness today, she had been able to write 2 books, done magazines, and newspaper interviews, appeared on TV and started her own business.

She has a passion for making fresh flowers design since she started at Lee floral design two years ago. She has been in competitions and have started independently selling to select customers. She would like to pursue this passion a therapy to heal her inner consciousness and finds solace while creating different colours and the flowers gives life to her soul.

She is passionate about advocating mental health awareness and also using flower designs to help empower other people who have a mental illness. She created V Floral a social enterprise to help and aid her living expenses. Voices of the World is an initiative created by Visha who would also contribute to the advocacy work.