Our founder
Prameela Balasundaram
Founder of SAMADHAN and author of Sunny's Story.Easy ReadPrameela Balasundaram started SAMADHAN in 1981.
“Listening skills, Humility. Patience. Three qualities I learnt the hard way on my long journey.”
“The question we were most often asked was, ‘Is it my karma?’ The answer, of course, was that it was no one's karma.”
Training and work
MA in English Literature and Semantics, Bangalore University
Trained in drama therapy with Dr Sue Jennings, a founder of dramatherapy in the UK
Hands-on training in Germany, sponsored by Lebenshilfe, before she started SAMADHAN
Has presented papers at more than 20 international conferences
Member of the National Trust's Local Level Committee for guardianship in Delhi
Key dates
- 1981
Founds SAMADHAN in New Delhi.
- 1993
President of the YWCA of Delhi, 1993 to 1994.
- 1998
Inclusion International gives SAMADHAN its Award of Recognition at its World Congress in The Hague.
- 2005
Dr Kiran Bedi releases Sunny's Story.
- 2011
Receives the Hind Prabha award from the Uttar Pradeshiya Mahila Manch.
Sunny's Story
A novel based on a true story. Prameela wrote it to raise money for SAMADHAN's services, and Dr Kiran Bedi released it in April 2005.Keep a child in therapy this year
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