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Devika Singh
Co-founderFounder of Mobile Creches
Devika Singh is the co-founder of Mobile Creches (1969)[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children, education and healthcare from New Delhi.
Mobile Creches
Mobile Creches, founded in 1969 in Delhi, champions early childhood development for children of working parents in marginalised communities — running childcare centres, training childcare workers and shaping policy. It reports reaching 1 million children and training 20,000+ childcare workers.
Mobile Creches reports the following, on its own site:
- 1 million children reached since 1969
- 20,000+ childcare workers trained
- 5,000+ childcare centres run
- 500+ industry partners and 100+ NGO partners
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
- 1969
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Mobile Creches was conceptualized during the planning of the Gandhi Centenary celebrations on March 14, 1969. Initially known as Kasturba Shishu Vihar, it started as a small project at Rajghat amidst the chaos of the worksite. Meera Mahadevan led the initiative, and Devika Singh joined a few months later.” — Mobile Creches. Source
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