Author: Abhishek Pde
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‘Seeing change in lives of children & families is heart touching’
COMPLETING 30 years in the social sector, Akanksha Foundation has been educating children from low-income communities across Mumbai and Pune – first, through their after-school centres and, since 2007, through the Akanksha Schools. The non-profit organisation has gone through an incredible journey with a mission to build the largest network of innovative schools that empowers…
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‘We need to build a society where girls are as wanted as boys’
Aarti for Girls was founded on this principle; a chat with founder Sandhya Puchalapalli IN 1977, Sandhya Puchalapalli, an English teacher in her early twenties, moved to Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, with her husband and two young girls. Working as a government high school teacher, Sandhya became painfully aware of the discrepancies between male and female…
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“I want to get every Indian volunteering”
Says Bhumi co-founder Dr. Prahalathan KK – and what he did during the pandemic pause STARTED by a small group of friends in 2006, Bhumi provides the youth with a platform to serve the society and bridges the gap between the educated and the uneducated. Bhumi today is one of India’s largest independent non-profit organisations…