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Pratima Joshi is the founder of Shelter Associates (1994)[1], an Indian non-profit working on water & sanitation and livelihood from Pune.
Shelter Associates
Shelter Associates was founded in Pune in 1994 by architect Pratima Joshi to improve equitable access to essential services for the urban poor through data-driven, community-centric solutions. Its programmes include the 'One Home One Toilet' model for individual household toilets, slum rehabilitation and beneficiary-led housing, and GIS-based digital mapping and addressing of informal settlements.
Shelter Associates reports the following, on its own site:
- More than 28,000 toilets facilitated, improving conditions for more than 2 lakh individuals
- Over 100,000 slum households given digital addresses across four cities in Maharashtra
- 9,000 individuals rehabilitated from vulnerable slums into better living conditions
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Pune
- Founded
- 1994
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “UN Women Coffee Table Book Titled HUM | When Women Lead was unveiled in Delhi. The book featuring SA Founder-Executive Director, Pratima Joshi is Supported by the Ford Foundation.” — Shelter Associates. Source
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