Andre Gingras
FoundersFounder of Bala Vikasa
Andre Gingras is the founders of Bala Vikasa (1991)[1], an Indian non-profit working on water & sanitation, women & children, rural & agriculture and education from Warangal.
Bala Vikasa
Bala Vikasa is a Warangal-based development organisation running community-owned safe drinking water plants, water conservation, WASH, women's empowerment, widow emancipation, education and humanitarian relief programmes. It requires beneficiary communities to contribute to and own the assets created, and also runs a people's development training centre.
Bala Vikasa reports the following, on its own site:
- Programmes have impacted over 10 million rural poor in more than 7,000 villages across 8 south-central states over 30 years
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Warangal
- Founded
- 1991
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Andre Gingras, a seasoned development expert, and Bala Theresa Gingras, an Indian philanthropist, founded Bala Vikasa in 1991.” — Bala Vikasa. Source
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