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Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram
Country Director
Country Director Lalitha Raghuram is a compassionate, enthusiastic and a high-integrity individual and as the Country Director of MOHAN Foundation, she is committed towards achieving organizational objectives through optimal leverage of human & technological resources.
She has a rich, broad-based expertise in health care management arising out of 27 years of experience with leading eye care and not-for-profit organizations around the world. She was an Administrator of L.V. Prasad Eye Institute for seven years (1986-93), following which she became the Executive Director of Eye Bank Association of India, where she served for 9 years (1993-2002). Having been trained internationally in USA, Prague and UK, she started MOHAN Foundation in Hyderabad in 2002.
In the year 2004 Lalitha’s passionate commitment to her profession transcended deep personal tragedy. In a tragic incident, her young 19 year old son had a fatal road accident and was declared brain dead. Walking the talk, Lalitha and her husband took the heart-breaking but inspiring decision to donate their son’s organs. For this brave and noble action, they were presented the CNN IBN Real Heroes Award.They received a trophy and a cash award of INR 5 Lakhs, which they have donated to MOHAN Foundationto further the cause of organ donation.
Most recently, Lalitha has been inducted as an “Ashoka Fellow”. Ashoka Fellows are social entrepreneurs who have made a difference in the society through their innovative work. She has also received the “Rotary Vocational Excellence Award” and "Woman in Transplantation Hero Award" among several other awards.
Lalitha’s incredible life experience has recently inspired the making of a film, Aye Zindagi. Directed by Anirban Bose, the movie follows the journey of a 26-year-old liver cirrhosis patient whose unlikely bond with a hospital grief counsellor Lalitha (played by veteran actress Revathy), rekindles his hope and faith in life and makes him believe in the power of humanity.
Aye Zindagi tracks real life events that took place in Hyderabad in 2004. It is based on the true story of Luv Dhody, a liver recipient and Lalitha, who was then the grief counsellor, guiding Luv who at that time was struggling with end stage liver cirrhosis. When the Raghuram family lost their 19-year-old son Swamy Narayan to an accident and they took the decision of donating his organs, the liver went to Luv. Aye Zindagi charts the relationship between the two main protagonists and portrays the powerful message of organ donation. It showcases how the altruistic act of donation changes lives and brings hope to both the donor family and the recipients. 
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Pallavi Kumar
Executive Director
Executive Director -(Delhi-NCR) Pallavi has been in the development sector for close to 30 years, working for a variety of organizations and causes. She started the Delhi-NCR office of MOHAN Foundation in the year 2011.
She brings to the sector her sensitivity and skills in relationship building & strategic communication. Her experiences raising funds for causes large and small has helped her understand how crucial fundraising skills are for an organization to be sustainable. Her expertise lies in fundraising from individuals and she won the award for the 3rd Highest Pledge Raising IPledger at the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in 2013.
Her work with Tamil Nadu Kidney Research Foundation in Chennai helped her understand the plight of patients living with end-stage organ failure requiring a transplant for survival on one hand and the acute shortage of organs in our country on the other. Armed with this understanding, and her deep passion for social causes, Pallavi is taking forward the important work of the Foundation in the North.
Prior to this, Pallavi was heading the South Asian Fund Raising Group (SAFRG). She was also with Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), spearheading the individual donor giving solutions, before which she worked with NAZ Foundation for almost 5 years and is still associated with it.
At MOHAN Foundation, she has launched a unique program called “Angels of Change” in which selected student volunteers from schools and colleges are taken through a customized training module to enable them to undertake awareness initiatives on organ donation amongst various audiences.
Beneath that soft heart there is a glint of steel that emerged when she braved her way up to conquer the Everest Base camp in 2018 and Mount Kilimanjaro in 2019 with the singular aim of promoting organ donation. 
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Jaya Jairam
Project Director
Project Director Armed with an engineering degree and a Post graduate in Finance, Jaya had been working in the corporate sector for the past 18 years and very recently decided to quit the corporate world to join the social development sector, working for the cause of Organ donation with MOHAN Foundation.
In the year 2010, at a very young age, Jaya underwent a kidney transplant. Her mother was the donor. The experience helped her understand the trauma of those waiting for an organ and the dilemma of taking an organ from a loved one. Since then she decided to undertake the challenging task of promoting deceased organ donation and encouraging more and more people to sign up for donating organs once they die.
Jaya started the MF Mumbai office recently and has been passionately furthering the cause since then. She dreams of an India where the waiting list of people hoping to receive organs is virtually non-existent and where it is not so hard for people to get second chances at living lives with their loved ones.
She hopes to enable support groups where first hand experiences and information could be exchanged, thereby helping people to cope better with the agonies and anxieties associated with organ failure. 
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Dr. Ravi Wankhede
Honorary Director
Honorary Director and Centre Head Dr. Ravi Wankhede is a former Indian Air Force doctor, having put in eight years of service to the Nation, before settling down in his native town Nagpur.
Ravi has been associated with MOHAN Foundation for over 6 years following his voluntary kidney donation to a friend in 2009. In Nagpur, few hospitals have carrying out live kidney transplants since a fairly long time, however, deceased organ donation hadn’t really picked up for many reasons. One of the reason was that the transplant coordinators working in hospitals were not aware and not trained for the purpose. Ravi organized Transplant Coordinators training by MOHAN Foundation in Feb 2012. In less than two months, the first successful deceased organ donation took place. Since then many more deceased donations have taken place.
Ravi’s act of donating kidney to a friend at the age of 60 attracted a lot of media attention after which the Government of Maharashtra nominated him as an expert member of the Zonal Transplant Co-ordination Centre (ZTCC) - Nagpur. This has led him to initiate mass awareness campaigns in and around Nagpur. Ravi has worked with the Academy of Medical Sciences, Indian Medical Associations, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, Central India Kidney Foundation, Rotary Clubs, etc. for conducting awareness sessions and seminars on organ donation. 
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Bhavna Jagwani
Convenor, MFJCF
Convenor, MFJCF In the year 2014 Bhavna took the initiative to start the very challenging task of setting up the deceased organ donation and transplant program in Rajasthan. An NGO was set upwith the partnership of MOHAN Foundation and Jaipur Citizen Forum called MFJCF.
Bhavna has always been a crusader for various causes in Jaipur. During her 3rd pregnancy, Bhavna lost her vision due to a drug reaction. Miraculously the vision returned after a month. However the experience changed her. Believing that there is a purpose in everything, Bhavna founded the Eye Bank Society of Rajasthan (EBSR) along with Late Shri M. L. Mehta in 2002. The primary objective of EBSR was cornea collection. Since its inception, more than 4000 people have got vision as a result of efforts by the EBSR.
MFJCF is working closely with the Rajasthan governmentto set protocols& guidelines, enable training of the medical staff and to create awareness on organ donation. The MFJCF staff sensitively counsels families of brain dead persons in SMS government hospital to encourage them to donate their loved ones organs to save the lives of other people needing organs. A start, even if modest, has been made in deceased organ donation in Rajasthan, both in public and private hospitals and 12 multi organ donations have taken place since MFJCF was formed generating 38 organs.
MFJCF was also instrumental in setting up the RNOS (Rajasthan Network of Organ Sharing). This online secure registry is to enablea fair and equitable distribution of organs to recipients waiting for organ transplantation from various hospitals in the state of Rajasthan. 
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Sujatha
Associate Director-Courses
Associate Director - Courses Sujatha S is the Associate Director - Courses with MOHAN Foundation. Being a post graduate in Social Work, she started her journey with the Foundation in 2010 as a Transplant Coordinator. She was deputed to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH), Chennai where she was involved in counselling the families of brain stem dead patients and facilitating the organ retrieval process. A few years later she was promoted as Manager - Information Systems that involves managing the reporting system within the organization, collating the activities of different centres, data mining and analysis, and reporting to the funding organization(s). Her experience at the RGGGH also allows her to contribute to the Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme as faculty for grief counselling and deceased donor coordination. She is also involved in developing and supporting the one year E-learning programme for Transplant Coordinators.
She is the recipient of best paper presentation award for her paper on “Impact of Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme” at the 5th Annual Transplant Coordinators’ Workshop held in 2012. Her poster on “Macro opportunities; Micro utilization” won the best poster award at the 7th Annual Transplant coordinators’ Workshop held in 2014. Her abstract entitled "Deceased organ donation in a public hospital - A model programme" was accepted for oral communication at the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement (ISODP) 2015 conference.
Sujatha S has previously worked with cancer and HIV/AIDS patients and her interest in palliative care continues. 
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Govindsamy
Accounts
Accounts & Finance Manager Govindsamy comes in with a rich experience of more than two decades in accounts and financial management with not-for-profit organizations of National and International repute. He has been associated with MOHAN Foundation for the last five years. Govindswamy is methodical and brings in high levels of transparency and integrity to his work in the Foundation. He is recognized for his acumen in finance and project management in the NGO sector. 
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Sivakumar
Sr. Programmer
Senior Programmer Hailing from Trichy Siva has done his Masters in Computer Science from his home town. He joined Medindia, a medical information website, as a Test Engineer. Knowing his potential with web technologies, he was taken into MOHAN Foundation in 2011 and has been working since then.
He is one of the strong pillars in technology for MOHAN Foundation as a webmaster for our well-designed and most visited website. He is also involved in designing the Foundation’s collaterals including newsletters and managing our social media applications. 
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Dr.Hemal Kanvinde
Q.A Officer
Quality Assurance Officer Hemal joined MOHAN Foundation with a rich experience in managing developmental and action research projects. She has previously worked in the fields of biodiversity, sustainable livelihoods, gender studies and management of coastal ecosystems.
She has brought to the organisation her skills in guiding young counsellors and designing research projects. She has developed a database of information needed to run a National Helpline on Organ Donation and has trained counsellors to deliver information concisely and clearly.
Hemal has worked at M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Centre for Action Research on Environment Science and Society (CARESS), National Biodiversity Authority and Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO). 
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Dr. Muneet Kaur Sahi
Programme Manager
Programme Manager Dr. Muneet Kaur Sahi is a medical professional with over two decades of experience in public education, counselling, and health communication. As Programme Manager at MOHAN Foundation’s NCR office, she plays a vital role in promoting deceased organ donation in Northern India. A certified transplant coordinator, she has counselled families of brain-dead patients and facilitated multiple organ and tissue donations, offering compassionate support during moments of deep grief.
She is also responsible for documentation and reporting at the Foundation, ensuring systematic record-keeping and accurate communication. Her work includes drafting session reports, preparing case studies, and maintaining data related to awareness programmes and institutional collaborations. In addition to her administrative contributions, Dr. Sahi has conducted numerous awareness sessions across Delhi and beyond, sensitising thousands of individuals to the importance of organ donation.
Prior to joining MOHAN Foundation, Dr. Sahi served as a health coordinator at various Indian Navy stations and managed a private practice for several years. Her dedication to the cause was recognised with the Swamy Narayan Best Transplant Coordinator Award at the 2014 Transplant Coordinators’ Workshop held in Hyderabad. 
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Dr. Bhanu Chandra
Operations Manager
Operations Manager Bhanu Chandra is a qualified physiotherapist and has aMaster’sdegree in Hospital Administration.
Bhanu has a wide experience in grief counselling convincing more than 150 families to donate organs of their loved ones. He was awarded Best Transplant Coordinator Award in 2015 during the 8th National Annual Transplant Coordinators Workshop. 
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Dr. Bhanu Prakash
Tx. Coordinator
Tx. Coordinator
Bhanu Prakash is qualified physiotherapist and has aMaster’s degree in Hospital Administration.
He has made his mark as an effective counsellor, and is considered one of the best transplant coordinators in Hyderabad convincing many families in their hour of grief to take the heroic decision to donate their loved one’s organs for the benefit of others.
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Neha Sharma
Program Officer
Program Officer Neha Sharma has a Masters in Sociology. She is working as Program Officer at the MOHAN Foundation Chandigarh office. Prior to joining MOHAN Foundation, she was teaching at a school.
In the last one year since Neha has joined the Foundation she has worked extensively in creating awareness on organ donation in the areas of Chandigarh, Punjab & Haryana. She is a Permanent Resource Person at Red Cross Punjab & Haryana, Directorate of N.C.C, N.S.S., Chandigarh Administration. She has conducted more than 130 Awareness Programs addressing around 20,000 audience. 
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Kavitha Aneesh
Marketing Coordinator
Marketing Coordinator, Trivandrum Kavitha Aneesh, Marketing Coordinator (Trivandrum) has a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Sri Ramachandra University (Chennai) and a Master’s degree both in Business Administration from Madras University (Chennai) and in Psychology from Mother Teresa Women’s’ University (Chennai).
Kavitha started her carrier as a nurse in Apollo Hospitals. She soon moved to teaching in Rajalakshmi College of Nursing, Chennai. She has trained more than 200 students in the four years. Understanding the importance of organ donation, she joined MOHAN Foundation in 2012.
As a Transplant Coordinator, deputed at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital Chennai, Kavitha was responsible for initiating a one to one sensitization programme for nurses. This improved the eye donation rate in the hospital. This multilingual coordinator attends the MOHAN Foundation helpline calls in all languages. She has contributed in conducted in many awareness classes and Workshops.
In 2015, Kavitha shifted to Trivandrum and continues her work as a counselor for the helpline and as a public speaker for awareness on organ donation in Kerala. 
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Bulu Behera
Tx. Coordinator
Tx. Coordinator Bulu Behera has been working with MOHAN Foundation since 2013. Bulu is a social work graduate from National Institute of Social Work and Social Science (NISWASS) Phulbani, Orissa. He has a Master's Degree in MSW (Master of Social Work) from Matru Sewa Sangh, Institute of Social Work Nagpur (Maharashtra).
He was associated with an NGO called ‘People Awareness & Hilly Area Development (PAHAD)’ for tribal people under livelihood mission after completing his graduation. He has also done a one month internship in Mumbai in center for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS) for women empowerment.
He has undergone Transplant Coordinator’s training from MOHAN Foundation and is now working as a Transplant Coordinator. He is also simultaneously pursuing Master of Labor study (MLS) at Regional Labour Institute. 
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Jerin Rajan
HR
HR & Admin Executive
Jerin Rajan has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration with a specialisation in Human Resources (HR)
He began his career as an HR professional with a start-up where he learned to plan, direct and coordinate administrative functions of an organization. At MOHAN Foundation, Jerin manages all the HR and admintration related matters.
Jerin enjoys a good game of cricket and likes to travel.
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Ranjini Shankar MS
Project Manager
Project Manager-Karnataka Ranjini Shankar MS has a Bachelors degree in Microbiology from SSMRV College Bengaluru. She started her career as a lecturer at Harsha Nursing College and then at Gayathri Nursing College. She has also worked as a Team Leader at 104 Arogyavani initiative (a toll-free health helpline number functioning 24/7 hours for the convenience of general public) conceptualized and implemented by the Government of Karnataka. Ranjini is an extremely motivated and cheerful person with a will to make a difference in the society. This is what motivated her to choose to be a grief counselor with MOHAN Foundation and help patients with end stage organ failure. She works as a Project Manager at MOHAN Foundation’s Bengaluru office. 
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Ganesh C
Marketing Coordinator
Marketing Coordinator
Ganesh C has a B.Tech degree in Mechatronics from SASTRA University, Thanjavur. Ganesh started his career as a consultant in Sutherland Global Services where he served as Senior Consultant, Process Trainer but eventually joined their CSR Team. Due to his interest in the social field, he changed his line and joined an NGO as a Project Manager in Village Upliftment Program (VUP) focusing on adopting Gram Panchayat (Village Cluster) and implementing development activities.
At MOHAN Foundation, Ganesh is responsible for the Marketing of the e-learning courses, conducting awareness sessions on Organ Donation and providing customer support through the Helpline. He is also supporting the Drone project of MOHAN Foundation - DRONACHARYA.
