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Vikram Nerurkar is the co-founder of The Opentree Foundation (2004)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and women & children from Mumbai.
The Opentree Foundation
The Opentree Foundation (formerly Toybank) runs play-based learning programmes for children from vulnerable communities, training teachers as play facilitators and operating play centres in schools to build essential life skills through its Conscious Play approach.
The Opentree Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 423+ government school partnerships across Maharashtra
- 10,000+ teachers trained as Play Practitioners
- Play programme presence across 12 districts of Maharashtra
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
- 2004
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “In 2004, while working with children in difficult circumstances, our Co-founders, Shweta and Vikram, discovered that play could do what traditional systems couldn't, it could unlock life skills and build confident, well-rounded individuals.” — The Opentree Foundation. Source
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