Damodar Acharya
Co-founderFounder of The Concerned for Working Children (CWC)
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Damodar Acharya is the co-founder of The Concerned for Working Children (CWC) (1979)[1], an Indian non-profit working on human rights and orphans & child care from Bengaluru.
The Concerned for Working Children (CWC)
The Concerned for Working Children is a Bangalore-based nonprofit that works to end child labour by making children key protagonists in solving their own problems rather than passive recipients of aid. It founded Bhima Sangha, a union of and for working children, and the National Movement of Working Children, and works on children's rights, gender equality, education and local governance.
The Concerned for Working Children (CWC) reports the following, on its own site:
- In our more than thirty years of existence, we have touched the lives of more than 60,000 children.
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
- 1979
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Nandana is one of the founders of the Concerned for Working Children (CWC) and is now the Director Development, while heading the consultancy wing Dhruva.” — The Concerned for Working Children (CWC). Source
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