Murlidhar Devidas Amte
FounderFounder of Anandwan (Maharogi Seva Samiti)
Murlidhar Devidas Amte is the founder of Anandwan (Maharogi Seva Samiti) (1949)[1], an Indian non-profit working on disability and healthcare from Warora.
Anandwan (Maharogi Seva Samiti)
Anandwan was founded in 1949 by Baba Amte near Warora in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, as a self-sufficient community rehabilitating leprosy-affected, disabled, and tribal people through livelihood training, small-scale industries and healthcare. It now runs hospitals, schools for blind and deaf students, a college and an orphanage under the Maharogi Seva Samiti trust, led today by Dr Vikas Amte.
Anandwan (Maharogi Seva Samiti) reports the following, on its own site:
- Over 2,000 differently-abled people live and work with dignity at Maharogi Sewa Samiti's Anandwan, earning their livelihoods through its programmes.
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Warora
- Founded
- 1949
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora (MSS) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation in Central India founded on 19th August 1949 by internationally-renowned social workers and human rights activists, Murlidhar Devidas Amte (popularly known as Baba) and his soulmate Sadhana Murlidhar Amte (popularly known as Sadhanatai) along with their peers.” — Anandwan (Maharogi Seva Samiti). Source
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