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Rita Panicker Pinto is the founder and director of Butterflies, a non-governmental organization in New Delhi, India. Since 1989 this organization has been working to protect and empower street children and child laborers. Butterflies〔Butterflies India〕 was the first organization in India with the purpose of protecting and empowering children living and working on the streets with a participatory, rights based and non institutional approach. ==Early life and career== Ms. Rita Panicker〔http://india.ashoka.org/fellow/rita-panicker〕 received her undergraduate degree in English literature from Fathima Matha College, Kollam. In 1976 she earned her Masters in Social Welfare Administration from The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Later she finished her studies with a Masters in Development Studies from The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands in 1982. She has been a faculty member in the Women’s Studies Unit, at The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. While in Mumbai Rita also was the Founder of MASHAL – Maharashtra Association for Social Housing. From 1988-1992, Rita served as the Director of the Board of ChildHope, an international organization working on issues of street and working children. In 1990 she was appointed Consultant to UNICEF New York and Nigeria to assist the UNICEF Nigeria office in formulating a national policy and programme for Children Especially in Difficult Circumstances (CEDC). Today this whole area is known as Child Protection. Currently, Rita is also the Vice Chair of the Board of Family for Every Child, a global alliance of local civil society organisations working together to improve the lives of vulnerable children around the world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rita Panicker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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