Opening of a Drop in Centre, Bubhaneswar
Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative has been working since 1994 with the mission of “Every Child in School and Learning well” focusing on making quality education accessible to all children. Pratham managed to mainstream many children into school and ensure that the quality of learning improves, however some vulnerable children (like child labourers, ragpickers and street children...) remained difficult to access and were still out of the mainstream education net.
In April 2001 was born the Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children (PCVC) with its Outreach Program to reach out to these most vulnerable, unreached children. The idea was to withdraw them from their exploitative conditions and ensure their proper rehabilitation in family, school and society.
Our mission:
“Every child’s rights protected, every child in school and learning well”
- Andhra Pradesh - Manisha Walia
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Manisha Walia, is working as State Head, Andhra Pradesh for PCVC. She is also responsible for Documentation and research of PCVC programs.
Manish, is a science graduate with Botany as her main subject. She was the University topper in graduation. Thereafter she competed her Master in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai in 2002, with specialization of Urban and Rural Community Development.
Contact No.: 0-96196 67441
Email: manisha.walia@pcvc.org
- Bihar - Ranjeet Kumar
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An enthusiastic Ranjeet has been engaged with Pratham since the beginning of the work on vulnerable children in Bihar. His experience has sharpened over the years. Now he is in charge of the rescue, repatriation and rehabilitation activities in Bihar, having high commitment and motivation towards eradication of working children and bringing them into the formal school for learning well.
Contact No.: 0-9334206680
Email: ranjeet.kumar@pcvc.org - Gujarat - Chandrasekhar Deshmukh
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Started working with Pratham in 1997. My passion is working for the education of downtrodden children. Initiated Pratham’s rural intervention in Ralegaon block of Yavatmal district in Maharshtra.
In 2001 I got an opportunity to be part of Pratham’s effort for the educational rehabilitation of earthquake affected children in Kutch Gujarat. Then onwards I am leading PCVC Gujarat team, which has successfully intervened on the issue of child labor allover Gujarat.
Contact No.: 0-9824111896
Email: shekhar.deshmukh@pcvc.org - Maharashtra - Sai Tambe
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Sai Tambe is working as a Maharashtra State Head
She has done her graduation in Marathi Literature from Ruia Collage, Mumbai, She Completed her Masters in Social Work Form Karve Institute of Social Service, With the Specialization in Family and Child Welfare. She has been awarded with B.K.Gokhale prize for outstanding research.
Sai joined Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children in June, 2011. She Sees into the Program Implementation of PCVC and any Intervention Related to Right To Education Act. for Maharashtra.
Contact number : 0-9370331213
Mail id : sai.tambe@pcvc.org
- Odisha - Subrat Kumar Kar
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Subrat is a Post Graduate in English and has been working in the development sector for the last four years especially on the issue of child education. He worked on the issue of quality education as a campaign associate of School Choice Campaign in Odisha in 2007 and as field coordinator of Art Venture & School Choice Campaign in 2008.
He was also elected Advocacy Campaign Coordinator to carry out the School Choice ideas among the political leaders during the general election in 2009. Since January 2009, he is working as Program Associate in PCVC Odisha. He is coordinating the prevention program in Bhubaneswar and is actively engaged in slum program and activities in brick kilns.
Contact No.: 0-9438271303
Email: subrat.kumar@pcvc.org - Rajasthan - Pooja Mehta
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Pooja Mehta is working as State Head Rajasthan.
She is an advertising graduate and holds a degree in masters of Social Work from Nirmala Niketan. She joined Pratham in Jan, 2012. She looks into the overall PCVC program for Rajasthan, which deals with networking, advocacy, implementation and monitoring.
Contact No.: 0-9829296625
Email: poojamehta25@gmail.com - Uttar Pradesh - Sneha Shirgaonkar
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Sneha completed her Bachelors degree in Arts with specialization in Political Science and has a Masters in Social Work, from the College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan. She joined Pratham on 1st June 2010. Since then she is working as State Head, PCVC Uttar Pradesh.
Contact No.: 09930074196
Email: sneha.shirgaonkar@pcvc.org
