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Renato Kestener [ Ambassador Brazil ]
He stayed with the Wahoe team between January and February 2015 and helped our community with computer and digital marketing
lessons. He is supporting our organization and spreading the word of our work around the South America.
We welcome him in our team and hope that his efforts will be of great value to the communities in need around India.
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Harpreet Kaur - Director of Education
Harpreet (Preeti) has been in her world since 2007 when she came over to Wahoe on a 1 way ticket and never left. With a background in art and environmental education and experience teaching in schools, Preeti took a job teaching English to secondary school students in Government School. After 4 years of enjoying the challenges of language teaching and learning, gaining her B.Ed and immersing herself in the language and culture of Delhi slums, Preeti joined Wahoe in 2007 to start the Slum teaching and community projects in Delhi. Preeti is fluent in local language and loves working with the local communities in slum areas. She enjoys providing support for all the Wahoe projects and aiding Wahoe in running some of the best volunteer projects in the India and Nepal. |
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Arianna Chretien-Fornaciai Pyne [ Ambassador U.S.A ]
Arianna came to the slum school in Delhi in May 2014 to teach English, Maths, art and yoga. Her dedication to the Wahoe organization was born and she is now working in the states as the American representative. She is an experienced world traveller, organic farmer and educator. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and is working towards her Master’s degree in early childhood education. She helps coordinate international opportunities with American citizens who want to offer their help through donations, volunteer opportunities, merchandise sales and internships. |
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Prince - Financial & Sales Manager
Prince, International Financial Manager. He is born in Delhi and grew up there. He came to Wahoe as a volunteer and will now handle all international finances regarding sales of our products in India. He is young, energetic & kindhearted person. He has been taught and inspired by Sh.Gurvinder Singh,Chairman of Wahoe Commune who is bringing all projects of WAHOE together. |
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Neelu - Teacher
This is Neelu the teacher of our small school in Nautanwa near the boarder of Nepal. She is a great teacher and also a great host, keen to share her cooking skills and traditional henna painting. Currently she has a mixture of children paying and recieving free education. We hope she will be able to support more children once she has moved into her new house with a space dedicated to the childrens classroom.
She also has two wonderful children Janu and Palak who help with the teaching. |
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Miss. Bharti Lamba - Slum Area Director
Bharati was born in Delhi she completed her schooling in Baleet nagar. Whilst in school, Bharati volunteered with charities participated in several charity runs and donated time to homeless shelters such as the Baljeet nagar welfare association. After working and travelling she chose to join Wahoe and set up the projects in Slums. She is now managing the teaching and sports programs in Slums and continues to help make a difference in the community. |
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Nisha Arora - Teacher
This is the social worker and teacher Nisha Arora who is working for our organisation with all her dedication. |
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Saroj - Volunteer
She is our new member of team from Trans Himalayan region.She lives in Tikri Village and working for women empowerment and making bags and other products for our souvenir shop. |
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Aruna Khanna - Assit. Manager
This is Aruna from Shimla. She gives travelers the great opportunity to stay at her homestay and she is also corporating a lot with travelers. |
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Sandeepan Kaur - Regional Director
She is Sandeepan who lives in Shimla most the year. She works in administration for the Shimla office. She helps the volunteers with any information that they need concerning the projects managed by Wahoe's Shimla branch, whether it's women's empowerment, village empowerment, child education, or the conservation programme in the Himalayas. |
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Suman Sharma - Volunteer
Suman Sharma is a very warm and welcoming host for the Galot village project. She has many skills and is a great cook! Volunteers stay with Suman and her family, in their home, when they work in Galot. At other times, she teaches Hindi to the local village children, so is well-known in the community. Experiencing her hospitality is a highlight for every volunteer who works on the Galot project. |
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Suraj Narang - Teacher
This is Suraj Gurang from Nepal. He got inspired from our manali education project and started education program in his village Chitwan (Nepal.). Hopefully he will join us in future with our Nepal project. |
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Situ - Teacher
This is Situ, she is the teacher of our girls school in Kukas, on the edge of Jaipur. Situ is very enthusiastic and although she only speaks very basic english herself, she tries her hardest to teach the girls what she knows. We hope that she will keep up her confidence to continue the Kukas school. She was also a great host and made us very comfortable with the rest of her family. |
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Gajan Singh - Meditation Teacher
Gajan Singh is a music and meditation teacher who contribute harmonium classes and spiritual lessons to the students in the main school of Wahoe commune every day in the evening. Everybody is welcomed to join. |
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Suraj - Volunteer
This is Suraj. He lives in Galot village, near Shimla. He is a great help, picking up volunteers in Shimla and taking them to stay with his family during their time teaching the children of Galot. He is a very friendly and enthusiastic helper. |
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Gyani Devi - Volunteer
she is our respected member Gyani Devi.She lives in Siri village.Without her we could not think of village empowerment in this village.you could enjoy her warm hospitality whenever you will be there. |
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Sheela Kashyap - Volunteer
This is Sheela Kashyap from Shimla. She is part of our women empowerment project and as seen in her lap she has been busy making cushion covers. |
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Mehar Singh - Volunteer
It's Mehar Singh!! He organizes everything Wahoe India Travel related. So that includes our slum tours, city tours etc and charity travel. We are very grateful to him as all of his profits go directly to Wahoe Commune to help with our education, women empowerment and community kitchen projects. |
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Jitender Chawla(Vicky) - Volunteer
Jitender often tells people he counts Madhuri Dixit amongst his inner circle of friends but really, he only met her at an airport once. Their friendship has been on the rocks ever since.
With a so many stories of his life and India culture, he is now a complete man. Armed with a degree in marketing, a volunteer spell in the India and countless experiences all over India to bore his future grandchildren with, Jitender now continues his Wahoe adventure in main bazar,Paharganj,New Delhi. |
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Manju Sisodia - Volunteer
After leaving village, Manju worked for the one hotel in Goa. In 2008, he traveled 21,0nautical miles across trans-himalayas, stopping in 18 villlages to promote environmental protection and local green initiatives. In 2011, Manju helped setup Wahoe's operations in Trans-himalayas working in partnership with The local communities. Manju is keen to continue to promote both the development of Trans-himalayas underprivileged communities and the protection of unique environmental assets. |
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Manoj Arora - Teacher
Having lived and worked for many years as a volunteer and teacher in Delhi, Manoj has been largely responsible for the development of Wahoe. He continues to be involved in all aspects of the day to day running of Wahoe and travels extensively throughout the year to Wahoe field stations. |
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Chamanlal Nehta - Slum Guide
This is Chaman, he sorts out the admin and also helps the volunteers with anything they need and leads slum tours.He has been giving yoga classes every morning to young children to keep their mind sound and body healthy. |
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Mamta - Assit. Faculty
This is Mamta, a teaching assistant in our main school. She came to Delhi from her small village in the moutains. She is the youngest sister of Chaman and Mehar. Now She is helping us in women Empowerment projects such as tailoring, sewing and making bags. |
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Kehar Singh - Countryside Director
His name is Kehar Singh. He has lived in Siri village all of his life, and can show you everything there is to know about this place! He loves living in a rural area and his enthusiasm is infectious. While he may not know much English, communication isn't a problem, as he greets volunteers and shows them around with patience and a smile. |
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Amrit Khanna - Volunteer
Amrit has been a key member of the Wahoe team since joining in Manali in 2011. He is young kind hearted person, he could be the first phase in shimla for volunteer to Coordinate. He is always there to help you when ever you need |
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Suriender - Volunteer
This is Surender, he is the cook at Wahoe Commune and will help with the Community Kitchen |
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Jae Arora - Field Director
This is Jae Arora a Field Director in wahoe, and a volunteer co-ordinator.
His ambition in life is to avail best quality travel and hospitality to all his clients. |
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Gurvinder Singh - Chairman
He is a spiritual healer and guide. Also deals in Gems & Jewels and Semi precious stones. At the moment he is bringing all the different parts of Wahoe together. |
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Mahi - Production Manager
Mahi is leading this Project in Shimla. She joined Wahoe three months ago. She is very hardworking and capable to do her work. She has keen observation. She started her project with a great anxiety and courage. Her duty is to collect bags and other products from each woman in the villages and sending them to delhi. We are happy to have her in our team. |
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Saripa
Hi...this is Saripa Beakta from Shimla. I did my schooling from M.P.S and graduation from ST.BEDES Collage after that I did my B.ED from H.P.U. and now I am pursuing M.SC. I am very social person. I would like to interact with people. I was inspired from Wahoe. This is an organization which works for women empowerment, child education and helping local communities across India and Nepal. Now I am working as Fundraise and Centre head in Shimla project. |
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Miss Sapna
She will be the First person with whom you will interact and will provide relevant information regarding education projects and women empowerment program.She is also volunteer coordinator online.She is young,kind hearted and energetic person. |
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