WAHOE COMMUNE - Key Persons
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
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.
Respected baba Arjun Das, has been selected for the post of Vice President. He is from our one of the famous project for girls education, Kukas village Jaipur.
Recently our president visited him to wish him good luck. He is one of the respected person in the village having large and nice family. All volunteers experience in this project have amazing and wonderful experience due to his responsible and caring personality.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
• After leaving village, Manju worked for the one hotel in Goa. In 2008, he travelled 21,0nautical miles across trans-Himalayas, stopping in 18 villages 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.
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.
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.
For the respectable post of vice president of Wahoe commune, Mr Mehar Singh has been selected. He is very friendly with local people and volunteers. He is very much passionate towards the welfare of unprivileged children and local community. He is running his business of restaurants in India Team of wahoe commune is wishing him all the best for the social cause, welfare of society.
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.
She is Mrs.Aruna Khanna. She lives in shimla and she is one of our senior member who has been hosting Volunteers since the beginning of our social educational project in trans Himalayan region. she is great cook and noble lady. after her retirement as a teacher, now she has been serving local community.
This is the social worker and teacher Nisha Arora who is working for our organisation with all her dedication.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mrs Varinder Kaur has been elected for the respectable post of president. she is nice and kind lady. she lives in Delhi. She is Always ready to contribute her time towards the help of needy people, our many past volunteers, children and local people are very familiar with this noble face.
Now she is responsible for major decision towards the rules and regulations of our NGO Wahoe commune.