RK
Rahul Kumar
PresidentLeads the trust and sets its overall direction.
About us
Eleven years of slow, steady, people-led change.
For more than eleven years, our people worked across rural Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha — unorganised, under different entities and names. We have now come together to consolidate all of that work into one foundation: Welcome Foundation Trust.
Our story
From scattered work to one foundation.
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Since 2013
Working, unorganised
For over eleven years, our founders and field teams worked across rural Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha under different entities, names and informal collectives — running learning centres, health camps, women's SHGs and flood-relief drives.
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2015–2020
Across the eastern belt
The work grew village by village — into Jharkhand's tribal districts, the Sundarbans of West Bengal and coastal Odisha. During COVID-19 we distributed 2.1 lakh cooked meals and 6,400 ration kits, even while still scattered across names.
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2026
Coming together
We consolidated all of that work into a single formal organisation — Welcome Foundation Trust — registered as a public charitable trust (Reg. No. 2047) and listed on NGO Darpan (JH/2026/1249791), with one team and one set of accounts.
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Today
One foundation
Under one name, we continue the work of the last decade-plus — across 1,200+ villages and 4.5 lakh+ lives — in education, health, livelihoods, women's empowerment and the rights of the most vulnerable.
What guides us
Vision, mission and the values we refuse to compromise.
Our Vision
A rural India where every child is in school, every woman is heard, and every village can shape its own future with dignity.
Our Mission
To walk alongside rural communities as partners — co-creating programmes in education, health, livelihoods and rights that endure long after we leave.
Our Values
Dignity over charity. Listening over assuming. Staying long over scaling fast. Honesty in every rupee we receive.
Our approach
We move slowly, stay long, and hand over the work.
Every Welcome Foundation programme is co-designed with the village it serves. We start by listening — to women's groups, to panchayats, to children — and we plan our exit before we plan our entry.
Our field teams live in the districts where they work. We measure success not in projects built but in institutions that survive us: SHGs that manage their own books, schools that run without us, farmers who train their neighbours.
- Village-level entry & trust building
- Women & children at the centre of design
- Local field staff, local language, local leaders
- Planned exit with community ownership
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Office Bearers
The trust's office bearers.
AK
Anit Kumar
TrusteeGuides governance, programmes and community partnerships.
GR
Govinda Kumar Ram
TrusteeOversees field operations and rural outreach.
Our team
The hands and minds behind the work.
MK
Meena Kumari
Programme DirectorLeads field operations across four states; a social worker from rural Bihar.
RB
Ravi Bhattacharya
Head of LivelihoodsDesigns farmer & youth livelihood programmes across the eastern belt.
PT
Dr. Priya Tiwari
Health Programme LeadPublic-health physician running our mobile clinic and maternal-care work.
AS
Alok Singh
Finance & ComplianceChartered accountant ensuring 80G and CSR compliance across the organisation.
NG
Nisha Gope
Women Empowerment LeadStarted as an SHG member; today leads 2,400+ women across Jharkhand.
DH
Dipankar Hembram
Tribal Outreach, OdishaFrom the Santhal community; bridges our programmes with tribal gram sabhas.
FM
Fatima Mondal
Sundarbans Field CoordinatorLeads our disaster-resilience and education work in the Sundarbans.
Legal & compliance
Registered, audited and accountable.
Welcome Foundation Trust is a registered public charitable trust. We publish audited financials every year.
Trust Reg.2047Govt. of Bihar
Darpan IDJH/2026/1249791NGO Darpan, Govt. of India
12A—Income Tax Act
80G—Donations tax-deductible
CSR-Form 1—MCA, Govt. of India
FCRA—Ministry of Home Affairs
Partners & supporters
Change is never built alone.
Bihar Education Dept.JSRL FoundationUnnati MillsRotary PatnaGrameen Bank FederationSanthali Samaj SabhaTata Water MissionBhavishya Co.