About
About the Foundation
Prabha Karape Foundation (registered as PRABHA KARPE FOUNDATION) is a not-for-profit company under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, based in Kharadi, Pune. It was incorporated in 2022 and holds registration under Section 12A of the Income-tax Act.
Our mission
To make sure that the people a growing city leaves behind (children in slum settlements, single mothers, elderly parents and families in crisis) get the support they need, and that every citizen's civic problem is heard and followed up until it is solved.
What we do
- Education: school kits, tuition and fee support for children from slum settlements.
- Women: support for single mothers and women's safety and legal awareness.
- Elderly care: health camps, medicines and regular check-ins for senior citizens.
- Relief: emergency help for families in distress.
- Civic action: documenting and following up on water, drainage, encroachment, pollution and safety issues with PMC and the police.
- Culture and seva: Warkari seva and community festivals that keep traditions alive.
Our values
We are non-partisan. We work through study, written follow-up and dialogue with the administration. We publish what we do and account for every rupee we receive.
Founder
Prabha Karape
What matters is not whose problem it is, but that the problem gets solved.
Prabha Karape grew up in Kolhapur, studied at Princess Padmaraje Girls High School and completed her M.Com in Accounting & Auditing at The New College, Kolhapur. After moving to Pune she made Kharadi her home, and her karmabhoomi.
As President of Kharadi Resident Welfare, she has worked for years on the everyday problems of a fast-growing IT suburb: water supply and tanker dependence, drainage and flooding, encroachment on roads and reserved plots, noise from modified silencers, garbage burning and the safety of women and senior citizens.
Her method is patient and practical. She studies the issue and the rules, writes to the right department, meets officials and follows up until the work is done. In her words, questioning the administration is every citizen's right, but results come from study, written follow-up and dialogue, not from shouting on a live video.
She founded Prabha Karape Foundation (registered as PRABHA KARPE FOUNDATION, a Section 8 not-for-profit company, in 2022) to extend this work to children in slum settlements, single mothers, elderly parents and families in distress. She also leads an annual seva for Warkaris at the PMC Warkari Hall in Kharadi, now in its twelfth year.
Public roles
- Founder, Prabha Karape Foundation
- President, Kharadi Resident Welfare (KRW)
- Member, Police Mahila Dakshata Committee, Zone 4, Pune
- Member, PMC Mohalla Committee
- State President, AABVS
In the news
What the press has reported
Independent coverage of issues raised by Prabha Karape and Kharadi residents.
- Punekar NewsKharadi: Gulmohar Paradise Homes Residents Raise Concerns About Sewage Contamination In Drinking Water
- Free Press JournalPune: Kharadi Residents Raise Alarm Over Toxic Smoke From Debris Dump On PMC Garden Plot
- Free Press JournalPune: Scrap Fires Near EON IT Park Choke Kharadi; Residents Slam PMC Inaction
- Free Press JournalOver 100 Trees Cut In Pune's Kharadi; Residents, Activists Allege PMC-Builder Nexus
- Pune PulseResidents Of Viman Nagar, Kharadi, Kalyani Nagar Join PMC's New Initiative To Resolve Civic Issues
- Free Press JournalDumping, Encroachments, And Zero Action: Kharadi Residents Expose Shocking River Crisis
- Free Press JournalPune's Kharadi Residents Slam PMC As Homes Flood Amid Monsoon Rains
- Punekar NewsPune Rains: Kharadi Residents Blame PMC After Floodwaters Enter Homes
- Republic WorldPune Police In Action: Major Setback For Bikers Shooting Off With Customized Silencers At Night
- Punekar NewsKharadi Residents Demand Immediate Reversal Of Water Supply Plan, Demand Action From PMC