Pravin Nikam
FounderFounder of Samavesh
Pravin Nikam is the founder of Samavesh (2011)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and livelihood from Pune.
Samavesh
Samavesh trains grassroots paralegal fellows who run civic access centres in Pune's excluded communities, helping families secure legal documents, welfare entitlements and scholarships, with each fellow equipped to assist hundreds of households. Its other programmes mentor students from marginalised backgrounds into higher education, run after-school foundational learning, and support persons with disabilities through Samavesh Saksham.
Samavesh reports the following, on its own site:
- 100+ Youth Leaders Trained as Samavesh Fellows
- 850+ Students Supported with Scholarships
- 2500+ Scholars Enrolled
- 1130+ Students completed our NEP 2020-aligned 60-hour curriculum
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Pune
- Founded
- 2011
- Press
- 0
References
- [1] “We, as a movement, were born from a simple yet life-changing encounter in 2011. During a visit to a village in Assam, our founder Pravin Nikam met a young girl named Roshni , who had dropped out of school because she had started menstruating.” — Samavesh. Source
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