Professor Rajani Paranjpe: Co-Founder of Doorstep School
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Professor Rajani Paranjpe has a passion for children’s education. She, as a professional social worker had her hand in many social works. However, she realised over time that no other such work is needed as much as education is. She knew that education is the only single factor which could change the lives of underprivileged children and their families. Thus, with this positive thought in her mind, she opened a school in 1987. She actually opened the school with her ex-student named Bina Lashkari.
The school is known as Doorstep School. Gradually, after some years, more than 750 faculty members joined. They then served almost 30,000 underprivileged children at the school. These children joined from construction sites and urban slum communities in the cities of Mumbai and Pune each year.
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Apart from providing quality education to neglected children, Professor Paranjpe made other contributions as well in the field of education. For example, while teaching and looking after her school, she authored and co-authored 40 graded learning books. She moreover even published a Marathi picture dictionary for primary school children. Most importantly, the dictionary was the first of its kind in the education sector.
Did you know that Professor Paranjpe has a master’s degree in Social Work?
She is a retired professor who taught subjects like Indian Social Problems and International Social Welfare. She has above all an extensive 20 years of teaching experience and taught at the College of Social Work, Mumbai, and the Shikoku Christian University, Japan. Besides, Professor Paranjpe was also a part of the Research Department and Anganwadi Training Centre at the College of Social Work, University of Mumbai.
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Her contributions have not gone unnoticed in the field of non-formal education and on several occasions, she has been honored for it. To sum up, her contributions gained her many awards. A Rotary Club Pune Vocational Excellence award in 2003 and 2009. A Maharshi Karve Stri Shikshan Sanstha Baya Puraskar award in 2008. Last but not the least, the Pune Marathi Granthalaya Matrusmruti Purskar award in 2011. Today, she has been serving as the president of the Doorstep School and continues to dedicate her life to underprivileged children’s education and welfare.
Changing the Lives of Slum Children with Free Education
Author: Simran K Parmar
A post graduate in English Literature, secular humanist, critical thinker, an outspoken atheist, follower of equality and a lover of philosophy. craftedfashion94@gmail.com
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