Gharkul Public Charitable Trust

Gharkul’s work began in 2006 to provide education to children from the lower socio economic groups. In the process the team at Gharkul identified an alarming number of children with special needs who were neglected and doubly disadvantaged due to lack of parental awareness about their needs, social stigma and poor financial access to special education and therapy. Gharkul’s program was therefore birthed in February of 2007 and designed to give these children an opportunity for a brighter future.

Gharkul was founded by Sunil Satpute, a Social Worker who has been working with children from lower income groups and street children since 1993. He observed that the children with special needs that he came across were denied their right to an education due to parental lack of awareness and their inability to afford the fees for special education.