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Meraki Foundation, Non-Profit Organization
Meraki is a feeling when you do something with your soul, creativity, passion, genuineness, and Love. The idea of this foundation is to support, protect, promote, care and love the welfare and well-being of deprived, vulnerable, women, aged, sick, children, and all those who have all the fundamental rights to live in a state of well-being.
The thought of social wellbeing and give back to society resulted in the birth of the Meraki Foundation, with a mission to cater Passionate Love 'n' Care to people. Meraki envisions happy minds, a clean environment, rightful education, support to the weaker section, nurturing talent, women empowerment in every and all possible ways.
Sowmya Gayathri
Founder and Managing Trustee
Sowmya Gayathri is the Founder and Managing Trustee of the Meraki Foundation, which she proudly says her dream child. She is an ever enthusiast in the area of social service and care. Always ready to jump into anyone’s help or lend a helping hand in whatever possible way. She wants people around her on this beautiful planet ever smiling and happy. Her trademark gesture is a broad smile on the face and saying Yes for any issue and jump into action as early as possible. She and her husband spread the culture of giving back to society as a fundamental duty with the logic that society has given us so much, it is our time to repay.
They started giving, donating, sponsoring umpteen number of people in various fields viz: Sponsoring education to vegetable vendors’ kids, flower sellers, getting a tailoring shop facility made available for a young talent getting him a source of income, enabling poor talents who could not complete education to get trained on skills they are good at and getting them a seat in various entrepreneur courses, which helped in job support, facilitating small shops for farmers to sell their vegetables directly to customers, donate cycles to kids from economically weaker sections of society for an easy commute, and this list goes on.
Sowmya is a working professional who is in a Leadership role in a reputed multinational company. She has a Postgraduate degree in Commerce where she was a topper. She is a freelance writer in local Newspapers with a profound interest in writing to reach many. She believes Pen is mightier than the sword. Her hunger to write and read pushed her towards deciding to do her Ph.D., which she is pursuing now.
The idea of a structured Giveback plan came to her mind and approached her brother to partner with her venture to spread the idea of Giving back to society on a large scale with a planned and structured way as he also shared the same mentality of helping and giving back to society in the most possible ways. The result The Birth of Meraki Foundation in February 2020.
Mission Statement
Passionate Love "n" Care
Vision
In a nutshell, #Givebacktosociety
Sudarshan PS
Co-founder and Trustee
Sudarshan PS, Co-founder and Trustee of Meraki Foundation, immediately agreed to Sowmya’s proposal on the mission of Passionate Love and care with the vision of giving back to society as a responsible citizen with multi-faceted talents. He is an Asst Commissioner of Police ( DySP) with Karnataka State Police. He is known for his wit, valor, professional ethics, disciplined lifestyle, and courage to go to any extent in getting justice to people who are deprived of it or who fight for it.
Sudarshan started his professional journey in 1994, and his dedication towards serving people has seen a steady increase over all these years of service. He has so far sponsored hundreds of kids to have better education, helped many have their pice of earning by sponsoring auto-rickshaws, donating scholarships to poor talents in his Mother’s name, helped his colleagues kids to have a good lifestyle by helping them in their socio-economic domain. He becomes famous for his amiable personality and remains the Best boss in his teams’ minds. He had multiple awards and accolades to his career, including the prestigious Chief Minister Gold Medal for Excellent service for 2018.
Sudarshan, an enthusiast of Cricket and Kabaddi, is active in both sports. He represents the state in Police kabaddi tournaments. He is a sharp writer who also is a freelance writer in local dailies and his department magazines. His command of the Kannada language is excellent. His mantra is Live and Let Live, and he wants to curate others’ lives with tremendous happiness and joy.
Mission
To provide essential educational opportunities to all enthusiastic youth with a dream in their eyes and fire in their heart to excel in life.
To provide essential civic amenities to the economically weaker society who have the right to live a respectable life with sanity and sanctity by providing a healthier atmosphere.
To provide essential academic excellence, harvesting the intrinsic human values, to induce social responsibilities to shape them as globally responsible citizens.
Vision
Passionate Love “n” Service to create better life every day for many people, be it in the field of Education, career, or personal life, to make a difference by igniting the spirits within to bring out the hidden potential to achieve the path of the prosperity of the individuals, society, nation, and world at large