Mrs. Lata Pande
FounderFounder of SAMPARC
Mrs. Lata Pande is the founder of SAMPARC (1990)[1], an Indian non-profit working on orphans & child care, education and women & children from Pune.
SAMPARC
SAMPARC was founded by Amitkumar Banerjee, who has worked since 1984 with children who were orphaned, abandoned, born to women in sex work or to imprisoned parents. Over more than three decades it has grown across Maharashtra, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, running children's homes, schools and a junior college with hostels for poor, rural and tribal students, industrial and vocational training centres, family counselling, rural health initiatives and women's empowerment programmes.
SAMPARC reports the following, on its own site:
- Grown from a home for 7 orphaned children in 1990 into a nationally recognized organization supporting over 650 children across India, with 14 project locations and 294 full-time and part-time staff
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Pune
- Founded
- 1990
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “In 1990, Mr. Banerjee and his dedicated colleague, Mrs. Lata Pande , founded SAMPARC (Social Action for Manpower Creation)” — SAMPARC. Source
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