Vijayatai Lawate
FounderFounder of Manavya
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Vijayatai Lawate is the founder of Manavya (1997)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare, orphans & child care and women & children from Pune.
Manavya
Founded in 1997 by Vijayatai Lawate, who had spent 35 years serving commercial sex workers and their children, Manavya runs Gokul at Bhugaon near Pune - among India's first orphanages for HIV-positive children - giving destitute and orphaned children and women shelter, nutrition, education and antiretroviral treatment without stigma. An on-campus medical centre, the UMED mobile clinic for village and slum families living with HIV, and vocational training carry Vijayatai's crusade forward.
Manavya reports the following, on its own site:
- 57 children aged up to 18 live as one family at the Gokul home in Bhugaon
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Pune
- Founded
- 1997
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “The dynamic founder of Manavya, Late Mrs Vijayatai Lawate, has worked for more than 35 years for rehabilitation of commercial sex workers and their children.” — Manavya. Source
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