Pandita Ramabai opened Sharada Sadan school for widows in the year

Pandita Ramabai opened Sharada Sadan School for widows in 1889. Ramabai worked however with the WCTU of India once it was officially organized in 1893. She returned to India, and founded a school for child widows in Pune called Sharada Sadan, which had the support of many Hindu reformers, including M. G. Ranade.