About US
Food for Life Vrindavan has been working in Vrindavan area since 1991. Our work includes free Meal Distribution, Cleaning and Tree planting, Paper Recycling , Organic farming, Sewing and Embroidery Centre (providing training & employment opportunity for village women), free education, skill training and medical help to over 1500 girls in Vrindavan, India. Over the past 25 years of working at grassroots, we saw the intense hardships a girl faces without an education, Child Marriage being the most common one, where she is forced into an adult role at an early age. FFLV aims to keep the girl in school until she is 18 to prevent early marriage. We also encourage & support the girl to pursue university education if she wants.
Meet Our Team
Rupa Raghunath
Founder & CEO
Rupa Raghunath had the vision, skills and persistency to develop FFLV from a food distribution program into an organisation that seeks long-lasting solutions and effectively helps to improve all areas of life in Vrindavan
Nikunja Vasini
FFLV Italy President
The second pillar of FFLV is Nikunja Vasini. She joined in 1999 and established the Sponsorship Program in the year 2002. She has been working tirelessly for many years as a volunteer to educate the girls of Vrindavan.
Ineke Zondag
FFLV USA President
Since 2006, Ineke has been closely involved in the operations in Vrindavan. As a leader for FFLV and the founder of FFLV USA, she dedicates all her time to raise awareness and funds for FFLV, globally.
Neeraj Saigal
COO & Vice President
Neeraj ji is the Vice President of FFLV for the past 20 years, managing the overall operations at FFLV and is one of the most important pillars of the organization. His service mood is an inspiration to everyone in the office.
Shyama Sharan
School Manager
Shyama has been a part of the FFLV for the past five years.
She’s passionate about spreading awareness and making girls’ education a priority.
With her warm approach, she’s built strong connections with supporters.
Rashmi Mishra
Principal SMIC (Child Protection Team)
Rashmi Mishra is the principal of Sandipani Muni Inter College in which our senior girls from 9th till 12th grade study. She is all what it takes to be a leader and keeps all the teachers united.
Deepika Sharma
Principal SMS
Deepika Sharma heads the main school of Food for Life Vrindavan, Sandipani Muni School from Kindergarten till 8th grade. She is compassionate, loving and the students love her very much.
Anshu Soni
FFLV UK Communications
Anshu's proactiveness and punctuality is visible in her role. Her attentiveness to hearing FFLV UK donor's issues and then dealing with them swiftly is remarkable.
Vaishali Agrawal (Ex-student)
Graphic Designer | Media Department
Our Ex-student Vaishali Agrawal showed real interest in designing. Now she learned skills like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and is now giving back to the society by working for FFLV
Partha Sarthi
Head of Transport | (Child Protection Team)
From bringing girls to school and then dropping them back to their homes safely, Partha Sarthi manages the whole transport of FFLV, from E-rickshaws, bullock carts to buses.
Bharat Soni
Head of Sponsorship
Bharat's managerial skills helped one of the most important sponsorship department in streamlining the workflow and improvising the processes which deals with the relationship between the sponsors and their sponsored child.
Virender Singh
Accounts Manager
With more than 12 years of experience in Food for Life Vrindavan in accounts department, Virender Singh is fast, proactive and has been managing the accounts department effectively.
Amit Das
Procurement Manager
Food distribution is one of the most important service in FFLV. Amit Das has been taking care of the quality, quantity and the management of the whole food distribution department in Food for Life Vrindavan
Siddhartha Mallick
Accomodations Supervisor
With over 10+ years of experience in hospitality management, Siddharth handles the needs of everyone in the office including the guests and volunteers.
Prema Rupa
Assistant to the President | FFLV USA
Premarupa assists FFLV USA President and takes care of the communication with all the donors and sponsors in USA. She also assists the Indian Media department with her creative energy when required.
Ashwin Chaudhary
Head of Media
Ashwin is responsible for the media and communications department and provides with all the creatives, proposals and the graphics which are required by the PR team of FFLV to fundraise for Food for Life Vrindavan
Akash Tiwari
Video Content Creator
Akash Tiwari, the powerhouse of our social media, is responsible for covering all the activities happening in Food for Life Vrindavan from food distribution, awareness march to any program in the school.
Manish Sharma
Field Research Head
From analyzing the income index of a family to actively being involved in the admission process, Manish Sharma makes sure that FFLV's motto of serving poorest of the poor stays intact.