Mitra Foundation

Jeevan Shakti

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This initiative is set up to work with families of patients who are terminally ill (or deceased) specifically with cancer. Especially, if the patient is the breadwinner of the family. These families usually require support for their kids’ education, sustenance in the initial days of the breadwinner passing away, enabling the families to be able to get back to a regular livelihood support.

Vidya Nivesh Scholarship

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This initiative provides scholarships to meritorious students from economically challenged families to pursue professional courses at the undergraduate level.

Jana Sahayog

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Enabling LBS Nagar residents to support others through education, healthcare, and empowerment

Shakti Smaran Diwas, 2026

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

‘Shakti Smaran Diwas’ commemorated at BGMS school

Mitra Foundation recently commemorated ‘Shakti Smaran Diwas’ at BGMS School, a unique institution that not only provides residential education to students but also extends care and shelter to needy women and senior citizens through its old age home for women.

A Heartwarming Beginning

The day began with a simple yet meaningful gesture — Breakfast shared by children, senior citizens, and volunteers. Before the meal, students chanted a prayer expressing gratitude for the food. It was a beautiful sight to witness the children standing in disciplined queues, patiently waiting for their turn, taking only what they needed, and finishing every morsel without wasting food. Their sense of responsibility and gratitude was truly inspiring.

Counselling Session (25th January, 2026)

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On the 25th of January, 2025, a counselling session was conducted in the premises of Karunashraya.

This was an annual educational counselling session, aimed at helping the beneficiary children choose a suitable career path. The goal of the session was to introduce the children to the various skill based diploma and graduate courses that would help them find employment and become self-sufficient young individuals.

The session started off with brief introductions of the children, where they spoke about their current academic status and future aspirations. Children of various age groups were present, ranging from seventh grade to PU students in various streams.

Blood Donation in the time of COVID

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Blood Donation in the times of Covid Sunday, July 19, 2020 12:32 PM As part of the JanaSahayog initiative of Mitra Foundation, we have been conducting 2 blood donation camps in the LBS Nagar area, over the past 8 years. In all we had conducted 16 camps, with a total collection crossing 1000 units. We had our last camp on 22nd Sept 2019, and were scheduled to the have the next one on 23rd Mar 2020. While we had initiated the preparation and communications for this camp, we ran into a the Covid 19 challenges, and the start of lockdown forcing us to cancel it, while we had time to understand how the situation pans out and see what would be the appropriate approach. In the current Covid situation, there is a reduction in the need for Blood, as there were fewer surgeries etc being taken up, but the need for blood for some of the other needs like those suffering from various anemic diseases, sickle cell disease or various forms of blood cancer is as in normal times. After the initial periods of lockdown, the shortage of blood at the hospitals and blood banks as become more prominent. We have been in touch with a couple of blood banks to monitor the situation. With the intent of sustaining our normal cadence of enabling our community to donate blood on a regular basis, we have started to look for ways that will factor in the necessary precautions to enable a safe donation from the volunteers minimizing their exposure to risks. The government has already recognized this and came out with an Advisory for Voluntary Blood Donation during COVID - MoHFW. The BMST-TTK blood bank has recently adapted one of their ambulances as a mobile blood donation van, and Standard Operation Procedures, to setup up mini-camps. After satisfying ourselves that we would be comfortable getting our community volunteers to donate in this setup, we set out to plan our first Mitra Foundation mini-camp.

About Us

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History

Mitra Foundation was born in November 2013, out of an unexpected, tragic event that brought together a group of friends grieving the loss of their young neighbor and friend to cancer. Wanting to commemorate his death, the founders started the Jeevanshakti initiative to assist families of terminally ill or deceased cancer patients, helping the beneficiaries build the ‘strength to live.’

Mitra Foundation was founded and registered as a trust with a broad charter and provisions to host multiple targeted projects, with Jeevanshakti as the first initiative to be launched.

Contact Us

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📌 Location

Sarovar Apartment,
8A Main, 2nd Cross,
L. B. Shastry Nagar,
Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560017

✉ Email

mitrafoundation.trust@gmail.com

Dr. Hanifa Batterywala

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Dr. Hanifa is a practicing general physician, currently working at RxDx.

She is one of the Trustees for Mitra Foundation. Apart from directly working with some of the beneficiaries of Jeevan Shakti, she has also conducted health camps for Jan Sahayog.

Kiran Godbole

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Kiran has done his BTech and MTech from IIT Bombay. He has worked with Texas Instruments, India for over 30 years.

Kiran is one of the founding member of Mitra foundation who is involved in counselling and support activities.

Manish Chaudhari

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Manish Choudhar has done his Post Graduation in Elec Engg from IIT Bombay. He is an IT professional since more than 30 years and with deep interest in Empowerment through education and skills. Manish is part of several social organizations (like Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram) and is passionate about contributing to social causes.

Manish is the founding Member of Mitra foundation and and as part of Management committee, he is our liason with Karunsashrya.

Nilanjon Gupta

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Nilanjon has done his Graduation in Electronics Engineer from BITS Pilani. He works at Nokia as a Product Line Manager.

Nilanjon Gupta is the Treasurer and Trustee of Mitra Foundation.

Prem Kumar Vadapalli

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Prem Kumar Vadapalli completed his BTech from IIT Bombay and Masters from Colorado State University.

Prem is an IT professional involved with Mitra Foundation from its inception (2013) as a Trustee. He is primarily involved in donor communications, fundraising, growth, and blood donation camps.

Publications

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Reports

No.	Year	Link
1	2024-2025	Link
2	2023-2024	Link

News Letters

No.	Month	Year	Link
1	July	2024	Link
2	October	2014	Link
2	March	2014	Link

Other

No.	Document Name	Link
1	Jeevan Shakti Brochure	Link

Sarita Kotagiri

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Sarita is a Pharmacologist and works as a visiting Associate Proffessor in East point college of Pharmacy. She also works as a volunteer in APSA.

Sarita is part of the Management Committee and is the direct contact for several of the beneficiaries and their children.

Soumya Thontesh

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After leaving my career in finance eighteen years ago for personal reasons, Soumya has been actively involved with several NGOs. Currently, with Mitra Foundation, I am channelling my passion and compassion into supporting those in need. In addition to engaging with NGOs, I also support many needy Children in their education through some Good Samaritans who rely on the background check & follow up that I do personally.

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Trupti Godbole

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Trupti has done MA in Psychology. She has volunteered in various organizations like Daily Dump and APSA. She is an active volunteer for activities for value education for children. She has dabbled in writing and illustrating books for children.

Trupti is part of Management committee for Jeevan Shakti.