Sellapah Raveendran – President and Public Officer.
Sellapah is a Professional Civil Engineer. He lives in Sydney with his wife and son Kumaran who is a PWD.
Sangeeta Suresh- Vice President
Sangeeta, has a Commerce degree from Osmania University. Presently employed as an accountant with a private firm. Sangeeta is the mother of Arjun a PWD.
Uday Shah – Secretary
Uday is an IT Professional based in Sydney. He has an MBA from University of Technology Sydney. Uday is married to Parul and is father of Sachin a PWD. His personal experiences have instilled in him a passion for Community work especially in the area of Disability.
Jayvant Vaidya – Treasurer
Jayvant is a qualified Civil Engineer and possesses a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, majoring in Construction Management from University of NSW. He migrated to Australia in 1991 and has established his career working in Local Government since 1992. He is passionate about working with the community. He is married to Vaishalee and has two sons.
Shiva Iyer – Executive member
Shiva is an IT professional and is a full time carer for his son Kaarthik. He is a Post Graduate in Information Technology from University of Technology, Sydney. Shiva is married to Charu, who is a Carnatic music teacher. He also has a daughter by name Priya who is married and lives in Austin, Texas. He is very much interested in health and healthy living
Subhash Kale – Executive member
Subhash Kale, is a Mechanical Engineer from Mumbai and a Proud dad of Yatish and Hrishikesh.
Rajni Chandran – Executive member
Rajni works full time and is Hem Sidharth’s primary carer.She has a doctorate in sociology from the University of Poona in India with many years of experience in community development and teaching. She is also a trained counsellor in Australia and works with Community Services. She is actively engaged in promoting networking as a means of empowering carers and persons with disability to overcome barriers to community engagement and wellbeing. Rajni is a writer in her spare time, having co authored a book of family memoirs which has been recently published.
Uma Ramasubramanium- Executive member
Uma Ramasubramanian is an IT professional who has been in the Telco field for over 20 years. Uma & her husband Ramasubramanian, also an IT professional , migrated to Australia 33 years ago. They are the proud parents of Prashanth who works for the Federal Government in Canberra. It is her passion to explore avenues & technology for people with disabilities (especially intellectual) . Her motto is “let us concentrate on the abilities” and help PWD’s reach their potential.
Caroline Romeo – Advisor
Caroline is a Statewide Home & Community Care (HACC) Project Worker whose work focuses on improving access for older people, younger people with disability and their carers to HACC services. She has a history of volunteering that includes or included the Art Gallery of NSW, local church, SEVA, one-off Sydney events like Australia Day, Sydney Harbour Bridge 75th anniversary, etc. Caroline’s connection with Samarpan is to support the group to raise awareness of disability in the South Asian community and to improve and support access for people to non-disability specific services. She can be contacted at sydromeo@tpg.com.au
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