PRISM foundation : works for education of "specially abled" children. Located off Prabhat Road. Unfortunately i do not have contact details. Maybe someone here could fill up

Vidya Mahamandal - Education and well being of deaf and dumb

http://www.vidyamaha.edu.in/index.htm

Door Step School - working in Pune since 1993, for bringing primary education to children in slums, pavement communities, and construction sites. They have a good number of paid staff to take care of children of 6 to 14 years old, from several construction sites across Pune city. I had very good experience with them during TOI's Teach India campaign.

An online list of NGO's is available here - http://www.maharashtra.ngosindia.com. They have also provided brief summary and contact details of each NGO. Good source of information.

Also check out the answers to the question about where to donate/recycle old clothes - contains some names of Pune NGOs

Also wondering whether to close this question in the light of the huge list of Maharashtra NGOs that Mandar has pointed to. That looks quite comprehensive. Is there any point in continuing this thread?

Also check out http://ngo.india.gov.in.

Deep Griha Society http://deepgriha.org has been working in 4 Pune slums (Tadiwala Road, near the railway station, Vishrantwadi, Fatimanagar and one more that I've forgotten). They focus on the women and children in the slums and do whatever is needed to help them. They've been around for 30+ years and have programs like sponsor-a-child (takes care of education/health/nutrition of the child), aids awareness, self-sufficiency training for women etc.

I have some personal experience with them; they have a bunch of people who are very dedicated to the cause, and they employ staff from among the slum dwellers themselves, and these staff people tend to be of variable quality.

Friends of Children http://www.focpune.org/ is a group run by volunteers (mostly from IT companies in Pune) who spend their free time (mostly on weekends) on mentoring older students (typically Xth XIIth or college students) from disadvantages backgrounds and ensuring that they have the appropriate guidance, and financial and non-financial support needed for succeeding in completing their higher degrees (and their families are counselled appropriately so that they don't force the children to drop out of school).

The volunteers are very dedicated, they have zero overheads (i.e. if you donate money to FoC, all of it goes to the beneficiaries - FoC does not keep any percentage of it, and all overheads are taken care of by the volunteers themselves).

GREAT Foundation looks after the needs of less privileged school children in Pune camp area and trains them in the new age skills.

More information is on http://greatfoundation.wordpress.com

Please contact Jaslene: jaslene.bawa@gmail.com

Check out http://FundACause.posterous.com/?sort=&search=pune for a list of several Pune-based NGOs.

I tried posting another link but being a new user, am not being allowed to post more than one link.