Sheila Devaraj
FounderPhoto published by Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA)
Sheila Devaraj is the founder of Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA)[1], an Indian non-profit working on orphans & child care and education from Bengaluru.
Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA)
APSA is a rights-based, child-centred organisation founded in 1981 that runs residential shelters, open shelters and community programmes for street children, orphans and children escaping exploitation across Bangalore and Hyderabad, including its long-running Nammane open shelter under the Juvenile Justice Act.
Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA) reports the following, on its own site:
- A large team of committed staff, volunteers, and experts working in 125 urban slums through 20+ different projects in Hyderabad and Bengaluru
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
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- Press
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References
- [1] “The pioneering work led to Sheila and others founding APSA, which has been directly involved in child rights and child protection work in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.” — Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA). Source
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