Personnel Overview

Prakash Palande - Director, National Institute for Sustainable Devt
Prakash has worked in social work in India for over 20 years. Being himself from the project area, he is very moved by the plight of cigaretter-rollers and their children and saw that no-one else was working in teh area. So he set up NISD to help both the poverty stricken Dalit (untouchable) and Tribal people in the area.

MANGAL KADAM - Project Coordinator
Mangal was involved in social activities since her college days. She did a MSW to improve her knowledge of how she could help the most deprived. Mangal did not want to disrupt her work and commitment towards the poor so she choose as her partner a man who is also a social worker and willing to work with NISD. Now Mangal and her husband –Yashwant- both are pillars of NISD’s work

Personnel Statistics

Jonathan Clark, Mr
Founded in 1987
Employees: 15
Volunteers: 30

Financial Statistics

Budget (2007): 1,731,617
Budget (2006): 1,646,007
Overhead: 9%
Other funding sources: Around 7,000 individual donors Big Lottery Fund Stanley Thomas Johnson Trust Staples Trust Wingate Foundation Guernsey Overseas Aid Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee Equitable Trust
Religious Affiliation: Buddhist