Ramabai Ranade
FounderFounder of Pune Sevasadan Society
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Ramabai Ranade is the founder of Pune Sevasadan Society (1909)[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children, education and disability from Pune.
Pune Sevasadan Society
Established on 2 October 1909 at Ranade Wada by Ramabai Ranade, pioneer of India's modern women's movement, with Gopal Krishna Devadhar, Pune Sevasadan Society began by training and sheltering distressed women — running nursing courses, hostels and schools that by 1924 spanned twelve hostels in and around Pune and branches across the old Bombay Presidency. More than a century on, the society continues from Laxmi Road with a girls' high school, a co-ed English-medium school, a working women's hostel, the Dilasa Kendra special school and Dilasa Karyashala workshop for intellectually disabled children and adults, an institute of foreign languages and a Solapur branch.
Pune Sevasadan Society reports the following, on its own site:
- By 1924 the society ran a total of 12 hostels in and around Pune
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Pune
- Founded
- 1909
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “After the tragic death of her husband in 1901, Ramabai moved to Pune and, on October 2, 1909, established Sevasadan for the rehabilitation of distressed women.” — Pune Sevasadan Society. Source
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