Dr. Sushama Nagarkar
FounderFounder of Yash Charitable Trust
Dr. Sushama Nagarkar is the founder of Yash Charitable Trust (2014)[1], an Indian non-profit working on disability, livelihood and mental health from Mumbai.
Yash Charitable Trust
Yash Charitable Trust has worked since 2014 to help neurodivergent adults live and work in the community of their choice with dignity and self-respect. Based in Mumbai and registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act, it runs an Employability Skills Development Programme and an Adult Support Kendra offering counselling, consultation, ancillary therapies and support for supported, customised, self- and open employment, alongside seminars, workshops and advocacy that sensitise the wider community.
Yash Charitable Trust reports the following, on its own site:
- 800+ neurodivergent adults and their families have benefitted
- 5000+ extended community members sensitized
- 80+ seminars, workshops, trainings and advocacy sessions
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