Founder And Executive Director
CurrentGitanjali believes that all children and young adults, regardless of disabilities should have access to inclusive environments. Inclusion cannot be applied as the response only to apparent exclusion. Inclusion must be woven into the fabric of any effort so that it deflects the possibility of exclusion itself.Gitanjali many awards and accolades to her credit and her work has been recognized in various platforms internationally. To mention a few – Gitanjali is an awardee of the Millennium Alliance Global Award 2020 which takes her stellar innovation ‘Kala Samvaad – Arts Practices for Inclusion’ to Nepal. She has been awarded the Nation Builder Award by Rotary Literacy Mission. Gitanjali has been awarded the 2nd Creative Art Therapy Award 2020 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the field of Art Therapy by the Sancheti Healthcare Academy as a recognition to the silent heroes who have done exemplary and exceptional work in the field of Creative Art Therapies.She has been recognised by Global Ethics Forum and Indian Institute of Management, for working towards establishing an impartial and fair world. She has also spoken at the prestigious TEDx BITS Hyderabad on ‘The Goodness of Life’. Gitanjali presented at the Conferencia Internacional – Por una Educacion que despliega las habilidades del Ser in Buenos Aires, 2019. Gitanjali Sarangan is the proud recipient of the Millennium Alliance Grant as a social innovator of one of the top five Innovations in the country for Education, 2017 by FICCI and in partnership with USAID and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.Gitanjali is the recipient of the NGO Leadership Awards 2017 . She has been awarded as one among the 50 Most Impactful Social Innovators (Global Listing) by the World CSR Congress. Gitanjali is also the recipient of the ‘Dr. Amarnath Annual Award for Inclusion’, 2016. She is one among two artists to be awarded the Artist’s Grant 2014 by India Foundation for the Arts.
