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Edith Wilkins is the founder of Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation, India (2003)[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children, human rights and education from Darjeeling.
Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation, India
An India-registered non-profit founded in 2003 by Cork-born nurse Edith Wilkins, providing care and protective support in Darjeeling to street children, victims of abuse and trafficking, and child labourers. It runs residential halfway houses for boys and girls along with education, healthcare, vocational training and counselling programmes.
Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation, India reports the following, on its own site:
- To date over 2500 children have come through our system in Darjeeling and presently there are over 500 children in the system
- 70 children can be residential at a time
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Darjeeling
- Founded
- 2003
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Founded in 2003 by Cork born nurse Edith Wilkins, the foundation is based in Darjeeling, India.” — Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation, India. Source
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