Dr. Harsh Mander
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Harsh Mander founded a campaign to work with homeless persons and street children through which around 5000 homeless street girls and boys, by providing them safe spaces are being provided safe spaces as residential hostels in mostly running government schools in 10 cities. (These are now managed by the Rainbow Foundation India).
In Delhi, Patna, Hyderabad and Jaipur, he founded and heads an initiative which helps run extensive street medicine programs to reach homeless women, men and children on the streets with health-care services, with health teams on foot and in vans at night.
He has also conceptualised and helped open recovery shelters for homeless men and women with TB, orthopaedic ailments, mental health problems and reproductive health challenges, recognizing that cure on the streets for homeless persons in impossible.
He founded Ashagram, or Village of Hope, in Barwani, Madhya Pradesh, for lives of dignity for persons with leprosy, with facilities for dignified livelihoods, surgery and rehabilitation, and education for children. This extended later to include polio surgery and community care of persons with mental illness.
