Balodyan is a residential hostel project for

nomadic Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the population of nomadic pa ...

and

orphan An orphan is a child whose parents have died, are unknown, or have permanently abandoned them. It can also refer to a child who has lost only one parent, as the Hebrew language, Hebrew translation, for example, is "fatherless". In some languages ...

children. This initiative was started in Jun 2009 in Lat village in Kolhapur District,

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. Currently it houses 31 children and it plans to expand for 100 children. This project is governed by Vidyarthi Vikas Prabodhini, a registered organization (Reg.No.MH/25713/KOP) working for improvement in rural education system in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra, India since last 5 years. Organization provides basic needs like computers, benches, library, laboratory and sports equipment, audio-visual devices and educational adoption program for economically challenged students in rural schools. Ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay, Diplomat, Author, Columnist is the source of inspiration, guidance for project Balodyan.

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Official website
Organizations for orphaned and abandoned children Organizations established in 2009 Organisations based in Maharashtra Educational organisations based in India Child-related organisations in India 2009 establishments in Maharashtra {{Maharashtra-stub