Children’s Hope Board Members
Indira Dhar
Managing Trustee
Born in Kashmir, in a family of professionals. Indra Dhar has grown up in a family who could make a small social impact with their philanthropic values. Educated up to the level of MPhill (Physics) she is currently the Trustee of the Sharika Trust and of The Aman Satya Kachroo Trust. She also runs her own unique IDI Exporters business, which is a leading Hand knitting DesignCompany that provides employment to at least 1000 rural & low income urban women across Northern India. Her strong administrative and accountancy skills are very valuable to Children’s Hope.
Asha Mirchandani
Settler Trustee
With a rich experience in the field of Advertising and Marketing, Asha has spent many years working in the corporate world – with ABC Consultants, and Bennett Coleman and Company. After this stint, she built up a strong background in the nonprofit sector working with various NGO’s for over two decades – In her capacity as Managing Trustee, at the helm of Children’s Hope, she supports the overall functioning of the organisation which includes strategic planning, corporate development and finance and marketing functions, in India.
Vinod Devichand
Trustee
After Graduating in Electric Engineering from MNIT Jaipur, & Post Graduation from Roorkee University, Vinod joined Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board in the year 1969. Having served for 36 years in various organisations under Govt. of Himachal Pradesh & Govt of India, he retired as Chief Engineer in the year 2005.
With his valuable experience, Vinod has been actively involved in social & charitable work especially in the field of education in remote areas, of Kullu and Manali.
Lavina Wadhwani Sareen
Trustee
Currently engaged in Manufacturing & Exporting Hi fashion garments for last 02 decades, Lavina has been involved in social activities for a long time helping Senior Citizens & Old homes and also supports and takes care of Children in need.
Lavina has been associated closely with Children’s Hope for last 4 years, initially as a volunteer and now has offered to give her support as the Trustee.
Done her schooling from Loretto Convent Lucknow & Graduated from Isabella Thoburn college Lucknow, has also done Travel & tourism from New Delhi Polytechnic.
Sabina Ramchandani
Trustee
Born and brought up in Uttar Pradesh. Sabina has been passionate about helping and teaching the weaker section of society since her school days. As a teacher at the Indian language school she helped the less academically inclined students with their studies and also started the collection and distribution of food items to the lesser privileged.
Sabina is currently a homemaker and a committee member of the Indian women’s association in Lagos which is involved in social welfare activities. She has also been a member of the rotary club in Lagos for the past two years.
Children’s Hope Executive Board
Richa Kulshreshtha
Executive Director
After graduating from St. Bede’s College, Shimla in 1997, Richa pursued her career in the aviation industry. Working there for seven years she developed an interest in education and worked for the next ten years with The Gnostic Center, an NGO excelling in developing courses for Higher Integral Education. A slow transformation motivated her to work in and for the community.
With a strong technical background and strength to explore and learn, she is now a part of Children’s Hope as an Executive Director since last seven years.
During this period she has opened two CHAHAK centres (Vikaspuri, Bindapur) which are providing quality education to the community students.
She looks after the operations of the organization, which includes supervising pan India projects, maintaining accounts, organizing fundraisers etc. Also, other technical work like maintaining website, database, social media and more.
Children’s Hope Advisory Board
Dr. G.K. Jayaram is a playwright, literary writer, and an educator. Dr. Jayaram was the first Chairman of Infosys and the Founding Director of the award-winning Infosys Leadership Institute in Mysore, India. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA. He has published several books and was shortlisted for the Sultan Padamsee Award in 2018 for his play The Choice. Currently, he is the Founder and Managing Director of the Institute of Leadership and Institutional Development (ILID). He is a great value to Children’s Hope.