Davida Roberts Awardees

2015 :Bombay Prarthana Samaj, Mumbai

( For running the orphanage at Pandharpur for more than 130 years and also another at Mumbai for more than 90 years.)

2016 :Kamayani, Pune

( For rehabilitation work for mentally challenged children for more than 60 years.)

2017 : CASP, Pune

( For providing facilities for all-round development of children from slums and low income families for more than 40 years.)

2018 : Manavya, Pune

( For providing shelter and mother’s love to children outcast due to AIDS.)

2019 : Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana, Pune

( For rehabilitation of children from Killari earth quake affected zone and children of farmers committing suicides.)

2020 : Dr. Anuradha Sahasrabuddhe of Dnyanadevi Organization, Pune

(For child centric community development programme such as “Gammat Shala” amongst underprivileged communities for over thirty years.)

2021 : Poona Blind Men’s Association, Pune

(For their work since 1960 for children in particular and people in general, which includes publishing a large number of books in Braille script, and implementing a large-scale programme of eradication of blindness.)

2022 : The Poona School and Home for Blind Trust, Pune.

(For their persistent work over the past more than 75 years for education, skill development and rehabilitation of the vision-impaired children.)

2023 : Dr. Avinash Wachasundar and Sm. Raksha Deshpande of Cochlea, Pune – for Hearing and Speech.

(For over 25 years of work for education, skill – development and rehabilitation of children with impaired hearing.)

2024 : “Aapla Ghar” Institute, Donje (Led by Founding President and Trustee Shri. Vijay Phalnikar)

(For over two decades of work in providing home to orphans and creating skill development programmes and medical facilities for them along with people in the surrounding villages.)