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Ms. Shirin Barucha
FounderFounder of Bal Asha Trust
Ms. Shirin Barucha is the founder of Bal Asha Trust (1985)[1], an Indian non-profit working on orphans & child care from Mumbai.
Bal Asha Trust
Bal Asha Trust is a Mumbai-based organisation caring for abandoned and vulnerable children through a children's home, adoption services, a child development centre, education sponsorship and nutrition programmes. It is among the few Indian NGOs specialising in placing children with special needs into adoptive families.
Bal Asha Trust reports the following, on its own site:
- 4,340 children benefited
- 977 children adopted
- 329 children reunited with their families
- 1,02,325 meals served yearly
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
- 1985
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Mrs. Vira Jamshedji, her husband Late Mr. Jehangir Jamshedji and Ms. Shirin Barucha had a great & fervent vision - to be able to support abandoned, destitute children, battling difficult circumstances in Mumbai. It was from this noble desire that Bal Asha - Children's Hope, was founded in 1985 and registered as a charitable trust.” — Bal Asha Trust. Source
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