Pehel : Walk a mile with a school child

Abhinav Sharma works with Avaya

Aditya Marathe an analyst with ZS Associates is an engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur. He was born in Gujarat and completed his education in Mumbai and Kharagpur. His interests range across traveling, blogging, photography, numismatics, and designing graphics. A dynamic person with  zeal to bring about change in the society, he believes that “every individual should do something in his or her capacity for the society”. (http://aditto.wordpress.com)

Ajit Gunge works with Avaya

Anushya Prasad a technical Writer with ThoughtWorks has completed an advanced Diploma in Japanese and is fluent with couple of other Indian/ Foreign languages. In her spare time she likes to read books on varied subjects, go out and do interesting things, attend music concerts. She is also a trained Carnatic Vocalist.

Binsy Manish Pillai senior software engineer at Honeywell Automation India Ltd. born and brought up in Mumbai completed her schooling and bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Mumbai. In 2007, after marriage, she relocated to Pune.  Her hobbies range across listening to music, watching TV, cooking, playing with children, and gardening. She has always been fond of teaching and has a social inclination to contribute to the country.  She harbors the belief that education and knowledge are the most important aspects in a human beings life to bring about a change in society.  She also follows the motto “Anyone who is capable should strive to help the unfortunate”.

Dhanalaxmi

Dhwni D Patel a dynamic software professional at Tata Technologies Ltd was born and brought up in Mumbai completed her schooling from St Joseph’s High School, Mumbai. She holds a bachelor degree in engineering from Cummins College of Engineering, Pune with Electronics and Telecommunication and a post graduate degree from Indira Group of Institutes, Pune. She believes in the motto “live life to the fullest and make a difference to someone’s life”.

Jaslene Bawa a financial research analyst at ValueNotes Database Ltd born and brought up in Pune is a post graduate in Finance. She believes that one can bring about societal change through small steps. She has been the volunteer co-ordinator at GREAT foundation for the past one and a half year and has actively initiated a number of education programs at the NGO.

She also follows the motto “Anyone who is capable should strive to help the unfortunate”.

Jyotirmay Deshmukh works with TCS

Pradhuman Kushwah works with Mphasis

Prerna

Rashmi Machado works with ZS Associates

Sanjeev Nichani works with Schlumberger

Shuchita Kumar works with Avaya

Tarang Baxi works with Thoughtworks

Trupti Gawande works with Avaya

Utpala Joshi works with Zensar

Yogesh Pitkar works with John Deere

Yogita works with Valuenotes

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Some of the volunteers who helped us last year…

Ankit Singh a software professional at Hover technologies Pvt. Ltd aspires to become an entrepreneur in the near future. He is a highly ambitious and committed individual who believes that contribution to the society can make India and the world a better place. His hobbies range from Philately to swimming to trekking to networking with people.

Dilraj Kaur Rehal an assistant HR at Voices HR born in Mumbai and brought up in Pune has completed her education in Pune. She believes that one should be always available in time of need and follows the motto “Simple living and contributing 100% in whatever one does”. She has always harbored the belief that contribution to the society through helping children is one way of ensuring a bright future of the country. Her hobbies range across drawing, painting, cooking, playing with children and event management.

Puneet Goyal a software engineer at GS Lab has completed his graduation from PICT Pune

Sanket Chourasia a software professional at Infosys Technologies Limited belongs to a small town” Mandla”, situated near Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. He was actively involved in his family business for more than 3 years that helped him develop an acute business sense.  He holds a bachelor degree in engineering and a post graduate degree from SD Mysore.  His hobbies range across traveling and discovering new places, listening to music, making new friends and biking.