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Gopinath is the founder of Sparsha Trust (2005)[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children and education from Bengaluru.
Sparsha Trust
Sparsha Trust was started in 2005 by a group of Master of Social Work students who wanted to help street, dropout, begging and child-labouring children realise their potential. It runs six residential educational rehabilitation and bridge centres across Bangalore, and says it has rehabilitated more than 8,000 children, enrolling around 3,000 of them into formal schools. Roughly 450 to 500 children are currently supported through its centres.
Sparsha Trust reports the following, on its own site:
- 86,000 lives touched
- 18,000 children benefited
- 7,000 youth trained
- 11,750 helped through COVID relief
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
- 2005
- Press
- 3
References
- [1] “Mr. Gopinath is the Managing Trustee and Founder of Sparsha Trust.” — Sparsha Trust. Source
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