Sandhya Puchalapalli

Founder

Sandhya Puchalapalli is the founder of Aarti for Girls (1992)^[1], an Indian non-profit working on orphans & child care, women & children, education and anti-trafficking from Kadapa.

Aarti for Girls

Aarti for Girls, run by the Vijay Foundation Trust Association in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, takes in abandoned and orphaned girls and provides shelter, family-based care, schooling and higher education support. It also runs an Aarti Women's Centre and community outreach programmes on the girl child across mandals in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh. The organisation publishes annual reports on its website.

Aarti for Girls reports the following, on its own site:

Aarti for Girls reports 6,430+ children reached through its care and shelter work.
Aarti for Girls reports 68,000+ women trained and empowered.

Organisations: 1
Based in: Kadapa
Founded: 1992
Press: 2

References

[1] “It was a hot summer day in Kadapa in 1992 when our founder, Sandhya Puchalapalli, found a two-year-old girl abandoned on the street - left to starve after her father had killed her mother.” — Aarti for Girls. Source

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