Phebega Paricho

iVolunteer award finalist 2012, 2015

Phebega forayed into volunteering for social change when she was sixteen. She is  a technical writer at Dell India R&D. She was the head of Corporate Social Responsibilities in a pro bono capacity for Dell India R&D, Bangalore. She also was the President and co-founder of an NGO called United Arms which is involved in social welfare activities for women and children from under-privileged homes and is primarily focused towards educating and rehabilitating them for a better life. She has recently relocated to Singapore and continues  to volunteer with various organisations there too.

Gunjan Patel

Head CSR, APJ & India, SAP

Gunjan, a post-graduate from Tata institutue of social sciences has specialized on Project planning and implementation – strategic planning & execution of CSR projects, Research & Analysis; Monitoring & Evaluation. He is competent in conceptualizing and integrating MIS into projects; Documentation and Sustainability Reporting; Proposal Writing & Fund Raising. He is also the recipient of “Thought Leader” Award given by CauseBecause.

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Zeeshan Ramlan

Head – Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion, CSR – Intuit India

Zeeshan is a HR Professional with over nine years of experience in various fields of HR like engagement, diversity, inclusion, employee relations, business partner HR role. He was associated with Infosys as Leader Business Partner HR prior to Inuit. He is the founder of an NGO that works for under-privileged people in the society. In 2018, the world HRD Congress honoured him with the Global Top 100 Diversity and Inclusion Leader Award.

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Aarti Madusudhan

Founder, Governance Counts

Aarti is also a consultant with iVolunteer and volunteer for Daan Utsav, India’s Festival of Giving. believes we can only change the world if all of us get involved. Her mission in life is to try and get as many people involved in making a difference by volunteering their skills and their time to NGOs/social causes in India.

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Ganesh Kumar

Volunteer, Bhumi, since 2013

Working as business analyst in Yahoo, he has been associated with Bhumi for 5 years, he believes that Bhumi has provided him the platform to explore his leadership capabilities and an opportunity to meet many like minded people who are willing to bring the change in the society. He says that “volunteering is more of a habit, than a choice to him”. At Bhumi Ganesh has held various leadership positions and currently manages HR for the Ignite Shelter Homes programme managing ~2,000 volunteers each year

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Rumi Mallick Mitra

Head, Corporate Social Responsibility, IBM

Rumi, with an educational background in Urban planning, Geography and Regional development has over 14 years of experience of working on development issues with stakeholders – Corporate Sector, International and local NGOs, Government and Media. She has focused on business responsibility and Corporate Social Responsibility, Skills and Employability, Diversity and inclusion, urban planning and development. Her specialities are program development, Fundraising and strategic partnerships, implementation management and grant-making.  She widely travelled across the Asia and engaged with various stakeholders.

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Mayur Bansal

Volunteer Lead since 2014

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Dimpy Dave

Executive – Program Lead at Godrej Properties Limited

Dimpy, a graduate in Psychology from Mount Carmel College, and joined as youth program coordinator in Indicorps. Later, she worked with 4^th wheel where she researched on CSR initiatives. She handled volunteering projects and events across 16 countries as an Executive in Godrej properties limited. She designed and led integrated village development programs for Godrej associate companies prior to taking over as the Lead of Programme management after which she managed social security programs for migrant workers, early childhood care programs, etc.

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Deepak Prabhu

Director – CSR, Global Head Outreach

Deepak is a Cognizant veteran who has performed multiple technical and delivery management roles for two decades in India, UK and USA, including contributing to Cognizant’s CSR program as a passionate volunteer for 8 years. He had been instrumental in identifying and finalizing funding initiatives for Cognizant foundation as part of core committee in the state of Karnataka. His volunteer efforts were recognized with Outreach Leadership Award in 2012 and 2015 for being the springboard to catapult Bangalore Outreach council to new heights.

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Abhishek Ranjan

Associate Director and Global Head – Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility, Brillio

Abhishek is an alumnus of IMT Ghaziabad, ISB Hyderabad and has done strategic CSR from IIM Bangalore. Abishek brings with him over 12 years of experience in corporate and development sector, currently leading CSR at Brillio Technologies. He advocates CSR through his lectures in B-Schools and he is a visiting Faculty at Christ University and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management. For his valuable efforts in strengthening the CSR ecosystem in India, he received CSR Professional of the Year Award at India CSR Award 2016 and India’s top 10 CSR Thought Leaders in the year 2018 by CauseBecause.

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Srikanth Viswanathan

Chief Executive Officer, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy

Mr. Srikanth has been an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for fourteen years. Janaagraha is a Bengaluru based non-profit working with the mission of transforming quality of life in Indian cities and towns. His focus area in the urban sector has been ‘City-systems’ reforms spanning Janaagraha’s flagship report – the Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS) and municipal finance reforms.

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Ramasubramaniam G

Founder, Talent Quest for India

Mr. Ramasubramaniam is an engineer currently pursuing MA in development at Azim Premji University. He founded Talent Quest for India as a school student in 2010 and it has grown since, into a youth volunteer movement of 1000 volunteers with a vision of creating socially responsible leaders; reaching out to 10,000 rural government school students annually from 35 schools in 21 districts in Tamil Nadu, Pune and Mysuru.

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Arun Krishnamurthy

Founder, Environmentalist Foundation of India

Arun is the founder of EFI, a wildlife conservation and habitat restoration group started in the year 2007. EFI is volunteer based non-profit functional in Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Telengana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Pondicherry. He worked with Google prior to founding Krish Info Media and Yogine Danta. He is also a Media studies teacher at APL Global School in Chennai and a freelance host at Thanthi TV. Arun is the recipient of Jane Goodall Youth Leadership Award in 2010, British Council International Climate Champion Excellence Award in 2010 and Google Alumni Impact Award in 2011, etc.

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Prarthana Kaul

Co-founder, GiftAbled

Prarthana Kaul is a cause marketer, motivational trainer, consultant and co-founder of GiftAbled – a social enterprise which strives to create an ecosystem of like-minded individuals to collectively build an inclusive society. A postgraduate in finance, Prarthana worked with IBM and iVolunteer prior to GiftAbled. She is a recipient of Best Social Entrepreneur Award 2018 by Hand in Hand, Community service Award 2017 by Rotary Bangalore Centennial and Social entrepreneur of the year Award by Namma Bengaluru Foundation, 2015. She has conducted various workshops in the areas of disability sensitization, sign language, Braille, volunteer management and employee volunteering engagement and brings with her a decade-long experience in development sector. She has engaged with 7,000 plus volunteers and 100 Non-Profits across country on various causes.

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Soumitra Pramanik

District Manager, Educate Girls

Soumitra has been serving the social development sector for 12 years from leading management positions at different parts of India; in various organizational capacities including leadership, partnership & project management, liaison, strategic planning, program designing and advocacy with diverse set of stake holders including community members and State agents. He has been associated with Educate Girls since 2015 as a District Manager leading 100 employees and mobilized more than 900 Team Balika’s (community volunteers) to promote girls education. They are working around 804 villages and 2425 schools in Jhabua district, in the State of Madhya Pradesh, India; focusing on enrollment of girl children into schools, retention and their learning improvements.

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Santosh Morey

National Manager- Impact, Educate Girls

Santosh has over 15 years of experience in the socio-development sector with specialization in integration of Research and M &E aspects into policy and programmatic interventions. He has worked with several national and international organizations in the areas of Reproductive & Child Health (RCH), Maternal and Child Nutrition (MCN), Right to Education (RTE) Act implementation, Child welfare and Child Protection. He has been extensively engaged in conceptualization, formulation, design and implementation of monitoring & evaluation activities for various programmes and advocacy initiatives.

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Anubha Sharma

Founder and CEO of Angel Xpress Foundation

Anubha Sharma spent 20 years as a financial services professional. She played regional and national roles in large organisations before taking a decision to give up commercial work and committing her talent for the use of the development sector.instead. Anubha Sharma is the founder and CEO of Angel Xpress Foundation, an organisation committed to supporting volunteerism by the educated affluent in support of first generation learners from the slums of Mumbai.

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Ashok Rathod

Founder and Director of the Oscar Foundation

Oscar Foundation is a non-profit organisation that provides football training and education to underprivileged boys and girls in Mumbai, Jharkhand and Delhi. The programme uses the power of sport to help children understand the value of education. The synergy between sport and education is vital; the combination creates the desire to learn.

Real Hero Award from the Reliance & CNN IBN, Amir Khan, Neeta Ambani (2009).

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Haresh Shah

Founder, Making A Difference Foundation

Mr. Haresh Shah is a multi-faceted and multi-talented person, who believes in the youth of today and trains them to be the leaders of tomorrow. He has studied Engineering and is an educator by profession and a motivational speaker by passion. Under his leadership ‘Hamara station Hamara shaan’ was executed during Daan Utsav, 2016 with 20,000 volunteers beautifying 36 stations in Mumbai.

The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has always intrigued him and the enormity of the task at hand due to our population is mammoth. Simply cleaning the stations was not the solution, they would be littered in a day’s time. The answer was to add beauty, colour and interest. The answer was to replace a negative with a positive.

Kinjal Jain

Assistant Manager – Community Services, Tata Engage

Kinjal drives implementation of group level volunteering programme in Tata Engage and provides support to TSG’s community services vertical in undertaking research for CSR strategy development for group companies who seek support.

As a development sector professional, Kinjal has over five years of experience and expertise in business development, strategy development, project management, volunteer management and stakeholder engagement. Kinjal has provided consulting services to many education non-profits, particularly in forming long-term strategies and implementation plans to execute them.

Meghna Raveendra

Regional Manager (West), Bhumi

Started as a volunteer with Bhumi in 2010 and now working as a Regional Manager since 2015. A Teach for India alumni, took the decision to work for educating children from underprivileged backgrounds 10 years ago and there is no looking back since then.

Shalabh Sahai

Co-founder, iVolunteer

Shalabh Sahai began his journey co-founding iVolunteer in 2001, the largest social enterprise for formal volunteering in India. He was India’s first Commonwealth Professional Fellow in 2003. He is credited with creating iVolunteer Awards, our nation’s only awards aimed at inspiring and establishing new benchmarks on volunteering. He was instrumental in founding the ICICI Fellows program in 2009 and thereafter co-founding India Fellow, a social leadership program for the youth. He also co-founded JobsForGood, a boutique HR consultancy for social enterprises.

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Afzal Amdani

Head – Fit4life & Purpose4life, Tata Consultancy Services

An ex-Army Officer and a sustainability professional with an experience of 13+ years. Currently driving two strategic initiatives in TCS – Fit4life (Employee Wellness Program) and Purpose4life (Corporate Volunteering Program). He is grateful to be in a profession mirroring his passion.

Abdul Ghani K

Chief Coordinator, Green Kalam Project

A renowned social activist. He is also called as Green Man of India. Planted over 40 lakh trees across India, organized more than 5,000 social and environmental events. Addressed more than 25 lakh students across India and internationally. Very closely associated with late former president Dr. Abdul Kalam, as part of his pet project Green Kalam. He is the founder and general secretary for IYONS internationals youth NGO summit which was organized by him to bring 120 countries to India.

Anshu Gupta

Founder, Goonj

Popularly known as the Clothing Man and recipient of 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award; Under his leadership Goonj has taken the menacing growth of urban waste and used it efficiently as a tool to trigger large scale rural development work. Anshu is an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow apart from being a member of the Humanitarian Crisis Council of the World Economic Forum and has been listed by the Forbes magazine as one of India’s most powerful rural entrepreneurs.

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N. Anand

Secretary, Ilaya thalapathy Vijay Makkal Iyakkam

N.Anand is a Ex.MLA of Bussy Constituency of Pondicherry. Tamil Actor Vijay’s Fan Club engages thousands of volunteers (fans) all over the world in Blood donation, Eye donation pledge, organ donation pledges and fulfilling basic needs to the poor. The organisation also works for disaster relief.

Archana Raghuram

Global head of Outreach, Cognizant’s employee-led social initiatives program

She moved to set up Outreach during its inception in 2007 and has been instrumental in taking its growth to 50,000 active volunteers and clocked more than 1,000,000 volunteering hours. She has been awarded the Forbes India Philanthropy Award in the ‘Good Samaritan’ category by the Forbes India Magazine and was honored as “one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2015” by Fast Company magazine.

Cognizant’s Outreach program was awarded the “Excellence in Community Impact” by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) India Annual Awards in 2013. SHRM is the world’s largest professional, not-for-profit Human Resource association.

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Harish Iyer

Ex-Director – Event Partnerships, Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon

An equal rights activist; he is an active voice for the rights of Animals, LGBTIQ, Women and Children. Professionally, after over a decade long tryst with communications and advertising, he forayed into the nonprofit sector with United Way Mumbai where he managed the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon. Iyer is a popular face on television and is listed as one of the 100 most influential LGBT persons in the world.He recently has joined Humane Society International India as their Director, to pursue active work in the cause closest to his heart – Animal welfare.

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Manjula Sriram

Sr. Manager – Community Services & Volunteering, Tata Sons Limited

She is part of the community services team at Tata Sustainability Group (TSG). One of her key responsibilities at TSG is the Tata Group volunteering program, Tata Engage. She believes that Sustainability is everybody’s business.​ Prior to joining TSG, she worked as a strategy consultant with Tata Strategic Management Group, where she helped develop a collective CSR agenda for the Tata Group and helped dimension the Tata skill development initiative – Tata STRIVE

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Jayaram Venkatesan

Jayaram Venkatesan, Convener, Arappor Iyakkam

He started the farmer’s organization Magasool which has been working for improving livelihood of small and marginal farmers. Over the last few years he has spearheaded movements on Anti Corruption. He along with his friends co-founded the Arappor Iyakkam which is a volunteer based citizen movement working for participatory democracy, transparency and accountability in Governance.

Bharani Shivakumar

Volunteer Coordinator, Chennai Rain Relief, 2015

A full time Engineer at an Multi National Company. Had been part of the volunteering teams both behind the desk and in the line of fire for many Chennai Marathons, Cycling events conducted by Tamilnadu Cycling Club and Cycling Yogis. He is right now actively involved coordinating the Chennai Rain Relief work along with a team of NGOs and individuals.

Neha Shrivastava

Head – Corporate Volunteering Program at iVolunteer, iVolunteer

Neha has worked on National projects and has carried out end to end management with iVolunteer for over 8 years.  Neha has designed volunteering programs for over 30 corporates, conducted more than 100 trainings on designing Volunteering Programs; and is the most sought after trainer for Tata sustainability group, Godrej industries and Aditya Birla group from 2014 to 2017.  She was instrumental in conducting the local research in Indian companies for “What’s working: Effective Employee Volunteering in Asia – A Framework for corporate Volunteer Leaders.”

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Nityanand Jayaraman

Writer, activist, key organiser – Urur Olcott Kuppam Vizha

Nityanand Jayaraman is a Chennai-based writer and social activist, and teaches environmental journalism at Asian College of Journalism. He is part of an anti-corporate collective called Vettiver Koottamaippu, and involves himself in mobilising youth to lend solidarity to social and environmental justice struggles around the country. He is an active volunteer in the campaign for justice in Bhopal and Kodaikanal, and is currently working to help stop a destructive coal fired thermal power plant from being set up in the hydrologically and environmentally sensitive Cheyyur taluk in Kanchipuram district. He is one of the key organisers of the Urur Olcott Kuppam Vizha.

Radhakrishnan M

Coordinator, Thozhan

Thozhan is a social organisation working in several areas including education and youth. The Thozhan team would be speaking on their volunteer driven Traffic Awareness Campaigns conducted at 100 signals every year to achieve the vision of an accident free nation. Over 2,000 volunteers were engaged, 1 Lakh pamphlets distributed and 50,000 head light stickers pasted to create awareness on Road Safety.

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Piyush Sethia

Convenor, Salem Citizens Forum

Piyush is farmer, green entrepreneur and a activist. Hailing from Salem & convenor of Salem Citizens forum which has restored many neglected water bodies. Corporates which have been looting salem have been hauled up and many have shut shop. Coop Forest a effort in creating forests sustainably is looking to challenge the present definition of development based on destruction of environment.

Dr. Sarabjeet D. Natesan

Volunteer, Langar Sewa, Gurudwara

An economist with a background in Teaching, Business planning & consulting, and Economic and Strategic analysis of Public Policy. She is spiritually deeply attached to the Gurudwara and volunteers at the Langar Sewa frequently.

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Vijay Shankar

Head- Corporate Social Responsibility & Government Affairs, Karnatka, Intel South Asia

He is presently Head of Corporate Social Responsibility & Local Government Affairs for Intel South Asia working from Bangalore. He has over 12 years of experience in Intel managing various portfolios. Prior to joining Intel he worked for Cisco Systems and Novell Software. Vijay Shankar is a recognized writer and columnist in Kannada language and has published over 10 books and won various awards including Sahitya Academy Award. Intel is the Leader in Employee Volunteering awardee at the iVolunteer awards 2015.

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Sumita Pai

Volunteer Coordinator, Chennai Rain Relief, 2015

She is a writer & editor in the publishing industry for the past decade, with prior work experience in travel & education as a marketing professional, counsellor & trainer. She has been volunteering for animal welfare, the elderly, and environment-related causes for over 15 years. At Chennai Rain Relief, she is involved with social media engagement, addresses donor queries, raises food & materials supplies for the field teams, and facilitates coordinating activities among CRR partner organisations.

Aravndh

Volunteer, Chennai Trekking Club

He is an active member of the team involved in Growing Trees (Plantation & Maintenance), Beach, Lake Cleanups, Waste Management, Blood Camps etc. Part of  Rescue and Rehabilitation team during the recent Chennai Floods. Apart from social part Chennai Trekking clubs main activities are Trekking, cycling, marathons , triathlon ,swimming , hill run and wide range of outdoor activities.

Abhay Phadnis

HR Consultant

He is a consultant in Individual and Organizational Effectiveness, with special focus on Assessment, Group Facilitation, and Executive Coaching. He has worked both in the field of psychometric profiling and in competency assessment through, including designing and Assessment and Development Centers.

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Ashwin Mahesh

Founder, BPAC

A former NASA scientist, social technologist and a leader of Lok Satta Party, he is also the founder member of Bangalore Political Action Committee (BPAC). He was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2009.

Dr. Balaji Sampath

CEO, AID India

After his PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park, he returned to India in 1997 to start AID India, Eureka Books and Eureka Child Foundation. For innovation in Science Education, he was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship and the Lemelson Inventor Certificate.

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Gangapriya Chakraverti

Director, Human Resources, Ford Global Services

She joined Ford after spending over 14 years in consulting. Prior to that, she was a partner with Kelsa Solutions and led the Information Products business for Mercer Consulting for India.

Jithin C Nedumala

CEO & Co-Founder, Make a Difference

Co-founded MAD in 2006; MAD is the winner of the leader in volunteer engagement award for 2012. MAD engages 4,000 high potential college students as volunteers to deliver high impact family support at substantially lower costs to children living in orphanages and street shelters.

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N P Krishnan

Volunteer, Art of Living

Director- Marketing, Consul Neowatt Power Solutions Pvt Ltd., he has been a volunteer faculty of the Art of Living for over 12 years, teaching various courses that include Yoga, Breathing techniques, meditation etc. He successfully coordinated with the Guinness World record for the world’s largest choir ‘Naadha Vaibhavam’ in 2011.

K. Pandiarajan

Founder, Ma Foi Consultants

Co-founded Ma Foi Management Consultants in 1992. It was India’s largest HR services company when it was acquired by Randstad in 2007. He now heads Ma Foi Strategic Consultants, serves on the boards of several trusts and is also a Member of the Legislative assembly of TamilNadu.

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Rahul Nainwal

Co-Founder, iVolunteer

Co-founder and Director of iVolunteer, he manages the whiteboard program. Rahul is an alumnus of IRMA is also TED and Ashoka Fellow. Rahul volunteers extensively with local organisations and has been a VSO Volunteer in Sierra Leone.

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Sarath Divella

Country Head, Lionbridge India

Over the last 30 years in the corporate world, he has worked with diverse nature of industries (manufacturing, technology) and also worked in various positions which helped him gain deep domain knowledge in various management functions. He is involved with many NGOs as advisor and trustee as he is keen to work in social sector.

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Sukanya Sreenivas

Volunteer Daan Utsav

Venkat Sriram

An Engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani, he has held various engineering positions in the field of software product and IT application development, For him, the move from a corporate job to the development sector is a profession change and believes in applying the professional competencies gained, towards the execution of a larger social initiative.

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Selva Ganapathy

Volunteer Coordinator, AID India

He has been volunteering with AID India for the past ten years and has mobilized more than 10000 volunteers across the country; raising funds of more than 1 crore. His extensive volunteering won him iVolunteer’s ‘Volunteer Hero’ award in 2013.

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KrishnaKumar Natarajan

Organiser, Chennai Coastal Cleanup & Chennai Trekking Club Green Team – Ainthinai

CTCian (Chennai Trekking Club) and Core Member of CTC Green Team “Ainthinai”. A passionate environmentalist and an ardent sports man. Organiser and volunteer of several green activities in CTC which includes tree plantations, saplings maintenance and coastal/river clean ups. Other interests includes Trekking, Biking and Marathons. Working as a Sales person with a private company.

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Vaishnavi Srinivasan

Manager, Bhumi

She joined Bhumi as a volunteer in 2008 and has extensive experience in coordinating and working with hundreds of volunteers over the years. She has completed her Teach For India fellowship in 2013. She is also the winner of the ‘Youth Volunteer of the year award’ at the India Volunteer Awards, 2011

Dr. Prahalathan KK

Co-Founder, Bhumi

Co-founded Bhumi in 2006; Bhumi is the winner of the leader in volunteer engagement award for 2013. Bhumi mobilises citizens to work towards the sustainable development goals, and its volunteers educate over 25,000 under-privileged children, and work for causes like environment, disability and animal welfare. He started a successful campaign on Change.org to bring back meters to auto-rickshaws in Chennai after seven years in 2013. By education, he is a doctor specialised in Ophthalmology. At Bhumi, he now leads the education programme in communities while managing civic initiatives, finance, events and communication full-time. 

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