Our Team
Ramya Kannan - Founder and Director
Ramya Kannan is the founder
and the Director of Thraahi Foundation. She is a certified Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, and Company Secretary who currently has a senior leadership role in an IT company based in Navi Mumbai. She currently also is a Research Scholar in the field of Indic Knowledge systems and also holds a Master’s degree in Sanskrit. A qualified professional herself, she firmly believes that education is the only thing that can make people thrive in this world and empower them. Hence, Through Thraahi she aims to connect the people who believe in supporting the cause of education with those who need the education they deserve thereby making a positive impact in their lives. Ramya wants to collaborate with institutions and individuals to put together several support initiatives to enhance the opportunities for these people to acquire knowledge and education and thereby feel empowered.
What does Thraahi mean to her?
A person who believes that all that it takes to help others is a kind heart, Ramya has been extending support to several people in her own small ways possible throughout these years. She says – “The worst feeling is regret and it pains when I see people regret that they did not get an opportunity for learning and schooling as a child. Therefore, Thraahi means a lot to me. Dreams to come true it seems because to me Thraahi is truly a dream come true”. Through Thraahi, she believes, people will feel cared for, and supported and feel assured that there is someone they can go to especially when it comes to education and learning.
Contact: Ramya@thraahi.org
Shivani Kannan - Co founder and Director
Shivani has been working in the field of product design for the last 3 years with an ambition to pursue a career in the user experience segment. Shivani is currently working as a designer at India’s largest e-commerce company in Bangalore. She is extremely passionate about the value of education and how it can give people a good quality of life. She often notices her maid, who is experiencing severe pain because of her lack of knowledge and awareness. This inspired her to do something really on the ground that would help people become aware of the power of knowing something. She has always worked extensively to constantly try and see how the experiences of people can be better when they use technology thereby interacting with people and smaller communities. That’s when she realized on the ground how education can play a big differentiator in the lives of people so that their life can be much simpler.
What does Thraahi mean to her?
To her, Thraahi means to be able to provide a long-term sustainable solution to everyone through education so that they get an opportunity to better quality of life. She thinks that giving to charities can only provide short-term consolation. But education can be a great solution to effect long-lasting transformation in one’s life- one based on self-reliance and independence.
Contact: Shivani@thraahi.org
Saket Rai - Co founder and Director
Saket Rai, is an entrepreneur and a software professional based out of New Delhi. In his capacity as a certified NLP practitioner and a certified clinical Hypnotherapist, he has been a therapist and healing people for over 2 decades working with several individuals and the students’ community to address various issues. Through his initiative” Inside the Mind”, he has also been training several corporates and students in colleges on how to use the power of the subconscious for holistic well-being. Over the years as a freemason, he has had a lot of opportunities to work with several underprivileged classes, especially students on their mental health and well-being. An accomplished writer, with the perfect blend of business development and communication skills, Saket wears multiple hats making the impossible possible for the foundation.
What does Thraahi mean to him?
Saket believes in equitable opportunities for all students because it was really striking that many of these deserving students were exceptional when it comes to talent and knowledge, but they need proper training and academic opportunities. He firmly believes that opportunity can be created. Therefore, Thraahi is a crucial endeavor that can promote such opportunities for people thereby giving them a fair chance to get groomed as better individuals through learning and knowledge.
Contact: Saket@thraahi.org
Our story
Thraahi’s founders came in to connect with the weaver’s community during covid and that’s when they saw how the weaver’s community in a small town in chinnalempet, in Tamil Nadu was struggling to meet their ends meet as their business was shattered. Coming from a generation of weavers, they had no education, they did not get an opportunity, or they had the financial strength to get one – All they acquired was the valuable skill of weaving sarees. But they realized that despite being skillful, it is very critical to be educated. Hence, amidst their own personal struggles and times of despair, they were so determined to give their kids the education they all deserve so that when these kids grow up, they feel independent and empowered.
This inspired the founders to come up with an initiative that would make people feel supported, give them an opportunity for learning, and make people feel empowered and self-reliant so that their lives get better. Thus Thraahi was formed.
Our Vision
Our vision is to build such a community where every child feels empowered by giving them a fair and equal opportunity to go to school, study, learn and acquire the basic knowledge and learning they are entitled.
Our Mission
Our mission is to support and promote the education of children by extending necessary monetary and non-monetary help and support to deserving students, through inclusive partnerships with individuals and communities.
Our Core Values
Transparency: ” Seeing is Believing” it is said. Thraahi Foundation firmly believes that every person who comes forward to support its cause has a right to know how the funds and support extended by him/ her have been utilized. We encourage a very transparent atmosphere, and the donors can connect with the students they support at any point in time to monitor their progress. This also would give them emotional and psychological satisfaction to see for themselves firsthand how the support they have extended has gone a long way to positively transform the life of a child.
Trust: Thraahi receives donations which are primarily used to support deserving students. This shows the amount of trust our partners and donors have in us. Hence, to Thraahi, this core value of Trust is very important. We strive hard to keep up the trust our partners and donors have in us. Each student’s background, family income, and school verification are carefully evaluated personally by the volunteers of the Thraahi team. The person is added to the list of possible beneficiaries only once their background has been verified and the necessary documentation completed.
Integrity: At Thraahi we do realize that when partners and supporters trust us with their hard-earned money with a noble intention to do something good, the responsibility is on us to act with integrity. All our volunteers are sensitized about this aspect that guides us along our journey to make a small impact in society.
Empathy: Kindness and empathy guide us through our journey and in our path to achieve our vision of a community where no child is deprived of education. We understand how parents feel helpless when they are unable to support their children’s dreams to go to school or college and become independent. At Thraahi, we aim to create an environment where people feel they are heard and supported when it comes to getting the education they rightfully deserve.
Why Trust Thraahi
At Thraahi, we carefully select the beneficiaries after detailed background verification and checking. The volunteers personally go through the documents and the records of the deserving students and only then take up the request for consideration. Also, in the case of financial support, we ensure that the funds are transferred directly to the educational institutions thereby ensuring the goal of extending support for educational purposes is not diluted.
