
Rita Panicker Pinto
FounderFounder of Butterflies
Rita Panicker Pinto is the founder of Butterflies (1989)[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children and education from New Delhi.
Butterflies
Butterflies works with street and working children in Delhi, supporting their education, health, protection and rights. It runs child-led programmes, night shelters and life-skills initiatives.
Butterflies reports the following, on its own site:
- More than 71,000 street-connected children served since 1989
- Almost 3,300 children reached each year in Delhi and Uttarakhand
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