Our Volunteers
Laxmi and Guru are adopted and have a vision to change the world. So on the 10th anniversary of their adoption, they decided to start a family foundation together with their parents. They wanted to share their limited resources with other children who are not as lucky as they have been and to try to make the world a happier place. In the summer of 2017, Guru created a survey, the results of which helped shape his and Laxmi’s ideas around eradicating poverty. It’s about the small things – think for example about the child who cannot get to school as there are no transport systems in place. If we gave him one of our old bikes, he could get to school, get an education and have a brighter future. As both Laxmi and Guru say: "We are not super rich and don't have millions to donate but we believe that if all of us share just a bit of what we have, we can end world poverty." Our mom talks about poverty elimination through shared systems change but to us it’s about sharing a bike for example, or a euro a week of our pocket money and in this way connecting to the children we share with. The world then really becomes one family! This has become the core philosophy of One Family Foundation – shared change - Sharing is caring! This led to the One Shared Schools website made by kids for kids! Schools in India can tell us what they need to help them provide quality education, for example new books. Pupils at a school in the Netherlands can then organise a fundraiser or sponsored event to raise the money for the books. Schools can make donations through the donate button and we will ensure the school in India receives the donation. Pupils can stay in contact with one another through the website and learn about each other’s lives and exchange messages, songs or just chat to each other about daily life. One Shared School is one of the projects One Family Foundation.
A secondary school student at Paulus MAVO, the creative one in the foundation
A secondary school student at Kennemeer Lyceum, the foundations chief researcher and connector
Chair of the board, partner PWC and key strategist
Secretary to the board of One Family Foundation
One Shared schools is part of the One Family Foundation.
Board member, Jeroo Billimoria, is the serial social entrepreneur
behind 3 global NGOs and many more national organisations that provide child oriented services.
Paula is working with One Family Foundation on various projects including One Shared School.
Lucy is an intern working with One Family Foundation and is helping out with the One Shared School website
Mr. Suraj is the founder of EDPROSYS with a diverse experience of 5 years in various startups and Institutions of Study within a short span of time. He done his Ph.D from IITB
The foundation is supported by the Janzen family. In the initial phase all operational and program costs (minus bank / transfer charges) will go directly to the school or institution. Over a period of time as operations grow, a nominal fee will be charged per transaction to support operations. One Family Foundation is registered in the Netherlands. Chamber of Commerce (KvK) number: 66742838
The world is one family and we seek to create partnerships,
both large and small in order to work together towards a peaceful
coexistence and initiate the change that is so greatly needed in the world.
By working together, we can more easily multiply our efforts
to scale up projects and create the momentum to take them global.
The foundation operates as a social innovation incubator,
facilitating projects in growing to scale both at the national level and globally.
We are starting with three projects, but we are open to incubating ideas from across the globe.
Sharing is at the core of all the projects.
We see shared change as the absolute basic principle to carry our projects forward.
MelJol is a non-governmental organization (NGO) registered under the Societies Registration Act. MelJol was initiated as a field action project of Family and Child Welfare, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai in December 1991. Since its inception MelJol has focussed on fostering healthy attitudes in children, creating awareness of the different needs of children from different backgrounds, and building spirit of confidence and entrepreneurship in order to create a civil society based on the co-existence and achievement.