History

Mission and Vision

Trustees & National Team

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In May 2005, Amitabh Shah quit his job as senior Systems Configuration Analyst at Hewitt Associates in Atlanta, to visit his family in India. He had got the highest scholarship ever offered to an international student at Texas A & M, College Station, Texas. He was to start MBA in August, 2005. He had come to India after living in the U.S. for eight years.

To his shock, he found that his 84-year-old nanny, Kamalaben, was unwanted by her only son’s family. Kamalaben had no money and nowhere to go but suffer the insults, cry and pray for death. He enrolled her into a nearby old people’s home. He shouldered her financial responsibility. He was touched by the poignant stories of several other elderly people there. Soon dozens of his friends started visiting them twice a week. They also started going to orphanages, local Blind People’s Association, two slum children’s schools as well as poor vagabonds found near the railway stations. He decided to postpone his MBA for a year. 

He founded a new movement called “YUVA Unstoppable.” It provides a platform to young people to give 2 hours a week towards helping an NGO that works for children.

They bring hope to poor children by teaching English, arithmetic, science, drama, dance and indoor/outdoor games. Besides, YUVA Unstoppable has started providing clothes, blankets, shoes, books and other amenities to hundreds of children of various slum areas. They take them out to movies, restaurants and our homes. They also celebrate social, national and religious festivals with these children. Our message to the slum children is that they do not have to lead a life of quiet desperation and frustration, or live a life of crime, or do drugs and alcohol.

There is a better way. There is hope for a significant future.

	Ravi Venkatesar		Pranav Adani
Imtiaz Ali		Ajay Piramal
	KV Kamath

Trustees

1. Amitabh Shah, Managing Trustee, Bombay www.yuvaunstoppable.org
   Yale University, MBA.  Declined a Wall-Street offer to return for India's development.  
   
   
2. Viren Joshi, Trustee Manav Sadhna, Ahmedabad www.manavsadhna.org
   Holistic Education of over 8000 children in Ramapir No Tekro, largest slum in Gujarat.
   
   
3. Jayesh Patel, Trustee Manav Sadhna, Ahmedabad & USA www.manavsadhna.org
   Holistic Education of over 8000 children in Ramapir No Tekro, largest slum in Gujarat.
   
   
4. Anar Patel, Trustee Manav Sadhna, Ahmedabad & USA www.manavsadhna.org
   Holistic Education of over 8000 children in Ramapir No Tekro, largest slum in Gujarat.
   
   
5. Janki Vasant, Managing Trustee Samvedana Foundation, Ahmedabad & USA http://www.samvedana.org.in/
   Educates 1000 children in Ahmedabad via public-private partnerships
   
   
6. Hiten Vasant, Director Vasant Transportation Pvt Ltd. and Trustee of Calorex Foundation & Director Delhi Public School www.hitenvasant.com
   
   
7. Pinki Godiawala, Max New York Life Insurance consultant and an inspiring social worker
   
   
8. Dipti Shah, Institute of English and Public Speaking www.diptishahs.com
   
   
9. Dr. Himanshu Joshi, Head Pediatrics at Kesar Sal Hospital, Ahmedabad
   
   
   

National Team

1. Amitabh Shah
   MBA (Yale) and Founder of Yuva Unstoppable
   Email: amitabh@yuvaunstoppable.org
   Yale University, MBA. Declined a Wall-Street offer to return for India's development.
   
   
2. Vinay Panjwani
   MBA, Businessman, Internationally acclaimed Photographer
   Email: vinay@yuvaunstoppable.org
   
   
3. Parth Vasavada - Parth Vasavada is an acclaimed social agent of change. He has been with Yuva Unstoppable since August 2006
   
   

Board of Advisors

1. Abhijat Shah - MBA (Harvard), CEO Clutch Group (US)
   http://www.clutchgroup.com/leader%20ship.html#Abhi
   
   
   
2. Nipun Mehta - Founder, Charity Focus
   http://nipun.charityfocus.org/about/bio.html
   
   

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