Hailing from a remote place in Mokhada, Bhalachandra brings the flavor of tribal life to Mokhada. With a post-graduate degree in Arts, he holds expertise in governance and livelihood. Furthermore, he has experience in holding public hearings. He implements the community development activities at the Dahanu location.
Chetan is a technical resource who has completed his degree in civil engineering from MGM College, Navi Mumbai. Previously, he has worked with Jijau Construction Ltd as a highway engineer. At AROEHAN, he provides technical support to interventions on water conservation. His interest lies in designing and technology.
Ganesh comes with expertise in agriculture. He pursued BSc. in Agriculture from MP Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri. He believes in bringing innovations to the field, making farmers’ lives simpler and easier with better income generation. At AROEHAN, he handles the agriculture intervention.
Madhuri has a great interest in the development of vulnerable groups especially the adolescent girls. She has a degree in social work from Pune University and experience of over a decade. She has also worked with BAIF for 4 years. At AROEHAN she implements community development activities targeted at improving health and governance.
Sujata has completed her M.A. in social work from the Tata institute of social sciences. She has joined AROEHAN in September 2022 as a Project Coordinator. Sujata worked with AROEHAN as a project coordinator from 2013-14 on the health project – Addressing Child Mortality in Maharashtra: The First 1000- days tracking of pregnant and breast-feeding mothers. She worked with CEHAT for the last 8 years for strengthening health care response to the survivors of violence against women and children. She has experience in counselling, providing psychosocial support to the survivors of domestic and sexual violence, intervening in the cases, and connecting survivors to the recourses. She conducts training on the issue of Violence against women and children for various organizations, healthcare providers, and counselors. She represented CEHAT at various national and state-level conferences, and trainings and was actively involved in ‘Maharashtra Mahila Hinsamukti Parishad’ as a core team member from CEHAT.
Ms. Pritam Noronha; recently joined AROEHAN as Operations Manager. She has completed her Master’s in Social Work along with the Post Graduate Diploma in Research Methodology from the College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan. Alongside has also completed the Post Graduate diploma in counselling psychology from Xavier’s institution of counselling psychology and Post Graduate diploma in Human Resource Management from the Welingkar’s Institute. She has worked as the Research Coordinator for the Research & Development Cell, College of Social Work and as the Programme Officer for the Branch Management Department of Family Planning Association of India, Mumbai Headquarters. She has good experience in research, project implementation, project management, and HR Management. She will be responsible for improving coordination across projects and improving overall operations – programmatic as well as organisational.
Hrishikesh has graduated in commerce from the University of Mumbai and has more than 20 years of experience in accounting. He comes with expertise in HR, Admin, and Finance domains. He has worked with reputed organizations such as Noma Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd, Fourcee Infrastructure. Hrishikesh leads the finance and admin team at AROEHAN.
Mr. Pradeep Khairkar holds post-graduation and educational degrees from Mumbai University. He has been working in educational and social sector for the past 25 years. Catering to his studies and interests, Mr. Khairkar has worked for education of the underprivileged, child rights, health, eradicating superstitions, women empowerment, rural development, and social justice in various social organisations in Maharashtra. He has worked on various committees of the Government of Maharashtra and has played an important role in the creation of training modules to be prepared to train the School Management Committees established by the Right to Education Act and has fulfilled the responsibility as a state-level trainer through the government. While working as the joint director and joint secretary of Vidhayak Sansad, he has implemented various educational experiments like VASTISHALA, MUKTSHALAs, BHONGA SCHOOLs, temporary hostels. He has been honored with ‘Mahatma Phule’ and ‘S.G. Varti’ award for his unique work in the field of education.
He has served a member for District Level Child Labour Project Society and Child Labour Action Committee of the Government, ICDS, District Rural Development System, Nehru Yuva Kendra, NABARD, SCERT, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, etc. He has reported and written on social issues in newspapers such as Loksatta, Sakal, Mahanagar, Aaj Dinank and in weeklies of Sadhana and Samyayog.
Kaustubh Gharat has been working with AROEHAN since 2017. He has completed master’s in social work from College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan. He has more than 15 years of experience in the Development Sector. Previously, Kaustubh has worked with organisations such PRAJA foundation wherein he looked after relationship with the government and administration for the projects on enabling good governance. He has a keen interest in demonstrating visible community impact through a multi-stakeholder approach. In Aroehan, he is responsible for the management of community development activities.
Nitesh is among the staff who are working with us since the inception of the organization. He holds degrees in rural development and agriculture. His interest lies in water resource management, livelihood, and strengthening local self-governance. With a decade of experience with the community at present, he is leading the infrastructure and supplies team at AROEHAN which includes the verticals of Livelihood and Water conservation.