Tarini Dagnino, a Venezuelan living for many years in India, is the founder of Shakti School of Arts for Girls, and co-founder of The Feeding Rishikesh Project, an NGO registered under the name Maa Anapoorna Sewa Trust in March, 2020. She is also co-founder of Saving Lives with Love, Inc., a US government-recognized non-profit charity, which ran programs to support the poor in Venezuela from 2018 to 2022, and is now focused completely on serving the poor in India.
Varun Juneja has been an essential support to the Shakti School since its inception. A UK-educated economist from the Punjab, he has now dedicated his life to service of the poor in India. Founder of the Feeding Rishikesh Project, registered in India as Maa Anapoorna Sewa trust, together with Tarini Dagnino he spearheaded the work of giving over 35,000 26-lb bags of basic foods to those in need during the Covid lockdowns, and initiated a kitchen that gave free dinners to over 200 people daily till from early 2022 through March, 2023. When Tarini started Shakti School of Arts for Girls, Varun made great efforts to help locate the ideal building for the project. A masterful communicator and a man of great integrity, he continues to provide essential support for the Shakti School team.
Ram Das Batchelder, an author of numerous books about spirituality, is the head fundraiser for Shakti School of Arts for Girls. In 2018, when he learned that babies were dying by the dozens each month due to malnutrition in Venezuela, he co-founded (along with Tarini Dagnino) Saving Lives with Love, Inc, a US government-recognized non-profit charity that has shipped tons of food, baby formula and medicines into Venezuela, where they were distributed to the poor by three teams of local volunteers. His posts on social media have helped to put the work of Shakti School in the public eye, and brought in many donations.
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