CASPINDIA

Senior Citizens: Senior citizens are invaluable asset to our society. We help them by providing them healthcare, psychological support and engage them with current developments... Community Development: Children cannot develop in isolation. It is only when the community develops enough to sustain the development of children that our job will be complete. To this end we work for development of empowered communities that have access to entitlements... COMMUNITY AID AND SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM was established in 1976 by Dr S D Gokhale in Mumbai. The stimulus for this came from a group of parents who were affected by leprosy and thus shunned due to their deformities. Unfortunately their children were also shunned and were not allowed to attend school. If at all they did, the children were made to sit apart from the other children. Not being able to bear this stigmatization of their children the parents requested Dr Gokhale to institutionalize the children where they would be safe from..

Primary location: Pune