Dr. Prema Dhanraj
FounderFounder of Agni Raksha
Dr. Prema Dhanraj is the founder of Agni Raksha (1999)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare, women & children and livelihood from Bengaluru.
Agni Raksha
Agni Raksha is a Bengaluru nonprofit founded in 1999 by Dr Prema Dhanraj, herself a burn survivor, to provide holistic rehabilitation for burn survivors from poor families, especially women and children. Its work covers medical treatment coordination and income-generation support for survivors, and has broadened over the years into sexual-health awareness, slum-focused child development, and social-inclusion programmes for other marginalised groups in the city.
Agni Raksha reports the following, on its own site:
- Since 2006, the lives of more than 4,000 MSMs and their families have been touched through social inclusion programmes
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
- 1999
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Burn survivor Dr. Prema Dhanraj founded Agni Raksha in 1999 with a focus on holistic rehabilitation of burn survivors.” — Agni Raksha. Source
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