[5] Prabhune lived in Nimgaon Mhalungi village in Pune district for nearly 10 years working with the locals.
[6] His stay at this village allowed him to observe and interact with the nomadic communities including the Pardhi, Waddar, Kaikadi, Davari Gosavi, Gondhali, dombari, Kolhati, Lambadi, and Pothuraju.
[9] Prabhune, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteer since young age,[4][10][11] effectively persuaded 50,000 fed-up Dalits who had intended to leave Hinduism for Buddhism at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur.
[1] In 1993, he started a school in rural Yamgarwadi village in Tuljapur Tahsil, Osmanabad district for the children of the nomadic tribes,[12][13][14] which still continues to this date.
[4] In later part of his life he started the Punarutthan Samarasata Gurukulam, a NGO run by Krantiveer Chapekar Smarak Samiti, in Chinchwad, Pune.