Hemanti Sikdar
FounderFounder of Healing Nest Foundation
Hemanti Sikdar is the founder of Healing Nest Foundation (2014)[1], an Indian non-profit working on disability from New Delhi.
Healing Nest Foundation
Healing Nest Foundation is a Section 8 non-profit company (80G and 12A registered) based in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, started in 2014 as an Early Intervention Therapeutic Centre. It works with children and adolescents with neuro-developmental disorders — including autism, Down syndrome, ADHD, learning disabilities and speech and hearing impairments — offering developmental, speech and psychological therapy delivered online, at home, in-centre and through school and community programmes. It also runs the 'Titli School', an inclusion bridge for underprivileged children with special needs, and trains rehabilitation professionals and families in child-development skills. Services are offered on a paid, subsidised basis alongside its charitable programming.
Healing Nest Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 77,000 children-and-families sessions conducted till date, with 1,420 families empowered through training and awareness programs
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
- 2014
- Press
- 0
References
- [1] “It was founded in 2014 by Hemanti with her passion for child development.” — Healing Nest Foundation. Source
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