Mitra Foundation

Jeevan Shakti

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This initiative is set up to work with families of patients who are terminally ill (or deceased) specifically with cancer. Especially, if the patient is the breadwinner of the family. These families usually require support for their kids’ education, sustenance in the initial days of the breadwinner passing away, enabling the families to be able to get back to a regular livelihood support.

Prem Kumar Vadapalli

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Prem Kumar Vadapalli completed his BTech from IIT Bombay and Masters from Colorado State University.

Prem is an IT professional involved with Mitra Foundation from its inception (2013) as a Trustee. He is primarily involved in donor communications, fundraising, growth, and blood donation camps.

Sarita Kotagiri

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Sarita is a Pharmacologist and works as a visiting Associate Proffessor in East point college of Pharmacy. She also works as a volunteer in APSA.

Sarita is part of the Management Committee and is the direct contact for several of the beneficiaries and their children.

Sowmya Thontesh

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After leaving her career in finance eighteen years ago for personal reasons, Soumya has been actively involved with several NGOs. Currently, with Mitra Foundation, she is channelling her passion and compassion into supporting those in need. In addition to engaging with NGOs, she also supports many needy children in their education through some good samaritans who rely on the background checks & follow ups that she does personally.

Vidya Nivesh Scholarship

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This initiative provides scholarships to meritorious students from economically challenged families to pursue professional courses at the undergraduate level.

Jana Sahayog

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Enabling LBS Nagar residents to support others through education, healthcare, and empowerment

Kiran Godbole

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Kiran has done his BTech and MTech from IIT Bombay. He worked with Texas Instruments, India for over 30 years.

Kiran is one of the founding member of Mitra foundation who is involved in counselling and support activities.

Manish Chaudhari

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Manish Choudhar has done his Post Graduation in Elec Engg from IIT Bombay. He is an IT professional since more than 30 years and with deep interest in Empowerment through education and skills. Manish is part of several social organizations (like Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram) and is passionate about contributing to social causes.

Manish is the founding Member of Mitra foundation and and as part of Management committee, he is our liason with Karunsashrya.

Nilanjon Gupta

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Nilanjon has done his Graduation in Electronics Engineer from BITS Pilani. He works at Nokia as a Product Line Manager.

Nilanjon Gupta is the Treasurer and Trustee of Mitra Foundation.

Ravi Reddy

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Trupti Godbole

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Trupti has done MA in Psychology. She has volunteered in various organizations like Daily Dump and APSA. She is an active volunteer for activities for value education for children. She has dabbled in writing and illustrating books for children.

Dr. Hanifa Batterywala

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Dr. Hanifa is a practicing general physician, currently working at RxDx.

She is one of the Trustees for Mitra Foundation. Apart from directly working with some of the beneficiaries of Jeevan Shakti, she has also conducted health camps for Jan Sahayog.

Neeraj Bhardwaj

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Neeraj Bhardwaj is the Director of SoC Validation and Characterization at ICW, Infineon Technologies.

He holds a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from GEC, Jabalpur, and an M.Tech. in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Bombay. He began his coaching journey with the Self-Expression and Leadership Program (SELP) in 2010 and volunteered for rainwater harvesting in Bengaluru. Neeraj also explores spirituality at Vipassana and is associated with Mitra Foundation for more than 10 years.

Ramachandra KG

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Ramachandra is a semiconductor professional with a passion for volunteering for social causes. He has volunteered in initiatives, both, at the corporate level as well as with NGOs whose primary focus is education and healthcare. He has been associated with the Bangalore Kidney Foundation and with Mitra Foundation for over 12 years.

Ish Dham

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Ish Dham is a Computer Science Engineer from IIT Madras. He has served as a Distinguished Engineer at ARM and previously at Texas Instruments. He is currently focused on enabling technology for social good and contributing towards Digital Public Infrastructure for social sustainability.

Sudha Sharma

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Radha Reddy

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Sharat Chandra

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Sharat has done his BTech in ECE from NIT, Trichy. He is a semiconductor professional with over 20 years of experience.

Sharat has been involved with various social activities. He has worked with Agastya Foundation to conduct a STEM based quiz competition across Karnataka.

He is an active volunteer with Mitra Foundation and has been working closely with several beneficiaries of Mitra Foundation.

Jeevan Shakti Manch (2026)

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The 13th annual Jeevan Shakti Manch was held on 26th of July.

The event began with an introduction session about Mitra Foundation, which is a complete volunteer based foundation, and its objectives. The organisation aims to help support the education and employment of families who lost their breadwinner to cancer. Though notably, now they are broadening their scope to help the families of patients with other terminal illnesses like chronic kidney disease and heart diseases.

Shakti Smaran Diwas, 2026

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

‘Shakti Smaran Diwas’ commemorated at BGMS school

Mitra Foundation recently commemorated ‘Shakti Smaran Diwas’ at BGMS School, a unique institution that not only provides residential education to students but also extends care and shelter to needy women and senior citizens through its old age home for women.

A Heartwarming Beginning

The day began with a simple yet meaningful gesture — Breakfast shared by children, senior citizens, and volunteers. Before the meal, students chanted a prayer expressing gratitude for the food. It was a beautiful sight to witness the children standing in disciplined queues, patiently waiting for their turn, taking only what they needed, and finishing every morsel without wasting food. Their sense of responsibility and gratitude was truly inspiring.

Counselling Session (25th January, 2026)

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On the 25th of January, 2025, a counselling session was conducted in the premises of Karunashraya.

This was an annual educational counselling session, aimed at helping the beneficiary children choose a suitable career path. The goal of the session was to introduce the children to the various skill based diploma and graduate courses that would help them find employment and become self-sufficient young individuals.

The session started off with brief introductions of the children, where they spoke about their current academic status and future aspirations. Children of various age groups were present, ranging from seventh grade to PU students in various streams.

Blood Donation in the time of COVID

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Blood Donation in the times of Covid Sunday, July 19, 2020 12:32 PM As part of the JanaSahayog initiative of Mitra Foundation, we have been conducting 2 blood donation camps in the LBS Nagar area, over the past 8 years. In all we had conducted 16 camps, with a total collection crossing 1000 units. We had our last camp on 22nd Sept 2019, and were scheduled to the have the next one on 23rd Mar 2020. While we had initiated the preparation and communications for this camp, we ran into a the Covid 19 challenges, and the start of lockdown forcing us to cancel it, while we had time to understand how the situation pans out and see what would be the appropriate approach. In the current Covid situation, there is a reduction in the need for Blood, as there were fewer surgeries etc being taken up, but the need for blood for some of the other needs like those suffering from various anemic diseases, sickle cell disease or various forms of blood cancer is as in normal times. After the initial periods of lockdown, the shortage of blood at the hospitals and blood banks as become more prominent. We have been in touch with a couple of blood banks to monitor the situation. With the intent of sustaining our normal cadence of enabling our community to donate blood on a regular basis, we have started to look for ways that will factor in the necessary precautions to enable a safe donation from the volunteers minimizing their exposure to risks. The government has already recognized this and came out with an Advisory for Voluntary Blood Donation during COVID - MoHFW. The BMST-TTK blood bank has recently adapted one of their ambulances as a mobile blood donation van, and Standard Operation Procedures, to setup up mini-camps. After satisfying ourselves that we would be comfortable getting our community volunteers to donate in this setup, we set out to plan our first Mitra Foundation mini-camp.

About Us

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Mitra Foundation was born in November 2013, out of an unexpected, tragic event that brought together a group of friends grieving the loss of their young neighbour and friend to cancer. Wanting to commemorate his death, Mitra Foundation was registered as a charitable trust with a broad charter and provisions to host multiple targeted projects.

Jeevan Shakti was the first initiative to be launched. This initiative was to assist families of terminally ill or deceased patients, helping the beneficiaries build the ‘strength to live’. We started collaborating with Karunashraya, a hospice for cancer patients and in the first year, started working with 3 families referred by them. Over the years, Jeevan Shakti initiative has grown to support more than 100 families. Apart from Karunashraya, we now work several other hospitals and organizations like Shankara Cancer Hospital, St John’s Hospital and Bangalore Kidney foundation. In 2025, we decided to support families of not only cancer patients but also those suffering from other diseases.

Contact Us

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📌 Location

Sarovar Apartment,
8A Main, 2nd Cross,
L. B. Shastry Nagar,
Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560017

Facebook: mitrafoundationtrust

Instagram: mitrafoundation.trust

✉ Email

mitrafoundation.trust@gmail.com

Publications

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Reports

No.	Year	Link
1	2024-2025	Link
2	2023-2024	Link

News Letters

No.	Month	Year	Link
1	July	2024	Link
2	October	2014	Link
2	March	2014	Link

Other

No.	Document Name	Link
1	Jeevan Shakti Brochure	Link

Support Us To Make A Difference

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Every contribution, irrespective of the amount, matters to us and helps us further the cause.

To give you an idea of how donations are used, we’ve listed some of the typical expenses and sponsorship amounts associated with our programs. These are provided purely as examples and are not fixed donation amounts.

Program / Initiative	Support Description	Amount
Jeevan Shakti	One year support for one child’s education	₹ 35000/-
Jeevan Shakti	Half year support for a child’s education	₹ 18000/-
Jeevan Shakti	One month grocery support for a family	₹ 5000/-
Vidya Nivesh	One year support for one child’s higher education	₹ 50000/-
Vidya Nivesh	One semester support for one child’s higher education	₹ 25000/-
Jan Sahayog	Community support for various activities	Any

If you would like your contribution to support a specific initiative, please mention it while making your donation.

Mitra Foundation

Jeevan Shakti

Prem Kumar Vadapalli

Sarita Kotagiri

Sowmya Thontesh

Vidya Nivesh Scholarship

Jana Sahayog

Kiran Godbole

Manish Chaudhari

Nilanjon Gupta

Ravi Reddy

Trupti Godbole

Dr. Hanifa Batterywala

Neeraj Bhardwaj

Ramachandra KG

Ish Dham

Sudha Sharma

Radha Reddy

Sharat Chandra

Jeevan Shakti Manch (2026)

Shakti Smaran Diwas, 2026

‘Shakti Smaran Diwas’ commemorated at BGMS school

A Heartwarming Beginning

Counselling Session (25th January, 2026)

Blood Donation in the time of COVID

About Us

Contact Us

📌 Location

🔗 Social Media

✉ Email

Publications

Reports

News Letters

Other

Support Us To Make A Difference