{"id":17,"date":"2026-10-28T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T07:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:38:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A journey that began with lived experience.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The profile describes how childhood hardship, education, community involvement and years of field experience shaped a lifelong commitment to helping people help themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early life & motivation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

From personal hardship to public service.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Born on 23 November 1952 in Hebbur, Tumkur district, Karnataka, S. A. Partha grew up in a family of six sons. His father was a police constable, and the family experienced financial hardship and repeated moves with postings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The profile records fee concessions, part-time accounting work, help from friends and Home Guards service as part of his path through education. He joined the Family Planning Association of India in 1975 for Rs.100 per month and adopted the guiding idea \u201cHelping People to Help Themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COMMUNITY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bharat Seva Dal \u00b7 Home Guards \u00b7 NCC<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Early community participation and service helped build a foundation for later social-sector work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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METHOD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Street theatre & training
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Used street theatre and participatory methods while working with women, youth and children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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INSTITUTIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panchayat Raj
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Organised women around the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act-1993 and developed training expertise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A journey that began with lived experience. The profile describes how childhood hardship, education, community involvement and years of field experience shaped a lifelong commitment to helping people help themselves. Early life & motivation From personal hardship to public service. Born on 23 November 1952 in Hebbur, Tumkur district, Karnataka, S. A. Partha grew up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parthaforpeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}