Pravin Mahajan, Janarth—Finalist SEY 2007

See Pravin Mahajan's full profile at:
http://www.khemkafoundation.org/awards/sey07/sey07_mahajan.php

Janarth is innovating education solutions for children of distress seasonal migrants. Janarth reaches 12,000 children in seven districts of Maharashtra who migrate every year to sugarcane factories with their parents.

Janarth's interventions cover the full cycle of migration, with 'Sakhar Shalas' or sugar schools at sugarcane factories and hostels in the villages from where families migrate.

Recognizing that every year in Maharashtra alone, 650,000 families with 200,000 children migrate to sugarcane cooperatives, Janarth is lobbying the state government to develop incentives and schemes for their education, protection and rights.

Pravin Mahajan has applied 20 years of experience in grassroots transformation to develop the Sakhar Shala initiative. He worked in different capacities in organizations like OXFAM and Action Aid India before launching Janarth in 1986. In 1998, he set up a chain of agriculture service centres in partnership with farmers which now report annual sales turnover of INR 10 million. In 1995, he pioneered an agri commodity marketing initiative—the first successful effort in the Indian Civil Society Sector. Pravin has also been engaged with the agro commodity processing sector since 2000.

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